Brooklyn’s Black church choirs persist amid attendance decline, gentrification
Soloist Jessica Howard, 25, sings at Concord Baptist Church of Christ in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., Sunday, July 20, 2025. (RNS photo/Fiona Murphy)
NEW YORK (RNS) — Choirs that once packed Brooklyn sanctuaries now sing to smaller crowds as pandemic-era streaming lingers and gentrification reshapes Black neighborhoods.
