Harlem
Calvin Butts, leader of Harlem’s historic Abyssinian Baptist Church, dies at 73
By Adelle M. Banks — October 28, 2022
(RNS) — Butts was known for his outspokenness on issues ranging from misogyny in rap music to the need to address HIV/AIDS.
Harlem is home to an important part of Jewish history in New York
By Nidhi Upadhyaya — November 11, 2021
NEW YORK (RNS) — Harlem, most well-known as a historic Black neighborhood, also once housed the second largest population of Jews in America.
Mary Lou Williams thought jazz had the power to heal. The Catholic Church agreed.
By Yonat Shimron — October 7, 2021
(RNS) — A popular biography of the legendary jazz pianist, composer and arranger gives a glimpse of how art can serve the pursuit of holiness.
Malcolm X assassin’s deathbed letter the latest in new look at Muslim leader
By Joseph Hammond — February 26, 2021
(RNS) — New leads in Malcolm X's assassination appear just as popular culture and Muslims themselves assess his impact.
Rev. Suzan Johnson Cook’s Black women in ministry program gains $1 million grant
By Adelle M. Banks — February 1, 2021
(RNS) — Cook called the grant-funded program a ‘game changer’ for Black women ministers and future generations.
Faith and the COVID-19 vaccine: ‘Using the Black church to get the word out’
By Julie Schonfeld — January 26, 2021
(RNS) — The Rev. Jacques Andre DeGraff of Canaan Baptist Church of Christ in Harlem talks about how Black communities are overcoming distrust of the medical community.
From New York to Alabama, blacks worshipped in own spaces before slavery’s end
By Adelle M. Banks — August 1, 2019
NEW YORK (RNS) — As the nation marks the 400th anniversary of the forced arrival of Africans in Virginia, a Harlem church joins others that have represented the enduring faith of slaves, free blacks and their descendants.
Lamenting our gentrified churches
By F. Romall Smalls — March 1, 2017
(RNS) In this growing trend of buying up and razing historically African-American churches to make way for new urban developments, we lose parts of our heritage.
Black Catholics: Pope will meet ‘vibrant, active part of the church’
By Adelle M. Banks — September 24, 2015
(RNS) “Black Catholics are more engaged in their faith,” said Deacon Bill Bradley of the Philadelphia Archdiocese's Office for Black Catholics. “They’re not just there to pass through and say, ‘My 45 minutes is up and I did my duty.’ ”
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