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Shot. For the audiences sake weve stopped the video before the fatal shot was fired. This morning the remains of that Wendys Restaurants were still smoldering after its interior was burned to the ground by protesters saturday night. One of the officers involved now fired. A second placed on administrative duty. And the citys police chief now resigned amid the controversy. As Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms as cast the shooting as an unjustified use of deadly force. This latest firestorm comes...

As Black women leaders increasingly seem under siege, Rev. Calvin Taylor Skinner examines his own struggle with misogyny. “Notes on […] The post Learning to walk alongside a leading lady: Refining my faith as a recovering misogynist appeared first on TheGrio.

As Black women leaders increasingly seem under siege, Rev. Calvin Taylor Skinner examines his own struggle with misogyny.

How women’s roles have changed in the Black church.

The seventh annual Success in the Arts Awards event will be held on Saturday, Sept. 30 at the Jamaica Performing Arts Center, according to Dara Bragg, the founder and CEO

After two years of observing Black History Month virtually, Queens Borough President Donovan Richards joined The African American Heritage Committee for its

(RNS) — The AME Women in Ministry said, ‘we are greatly distressed to hear of women in ministry concurrently being oppressed by systematic strongholds and discriminatory behavior.’

Ratona Stokes-Robinson, a pastor in the African Methodist Episcopal Church who was appointed to lead St. James AME Church in Thorofare, New Jersey, in June, is still waiting to preach her first sermon from the pulpit as congregants have kept her locked out of the church building because of her sex, pastors in the denomination say.

Ratona Stokes-Robinson, a pastor in the African Methodist Episcopal Church who was appointed to lead St. James AME Church in Thorofare, New Jersey, in June, is still waiting to preach her first sermon from the pulpit as congregants have kept her locked out of the church building because of her sex, pastors in the denomination say.

Office of Congressman Gregory Meeks Rep. Gregory Meeks started off the year with a new role on the world stage. Just weeks before 2020 ended, he was elected to chair the House Foreign Affairs Committee – the first Black man ever to hold the position. Since then, Meeks has opposed a constitutional referendum in Haiti, passed a resolution condemning China’s actions in Hong Kong and proposed strengthening economic ties between Africa and the U.S., all while managing local politics back in the ...