A century ago, a Black Gulfport preacher became one of the country’s best-known evangelists and recorded sermons on the phonograph for Paramount. Today, he’s largely forgotten. Here’s a ...

Rev. Howard O. Jones will discuss the precedents he has set and the history he has seen during nearly a half-century of evangelical work during “A Look at the African-American Church Today,&#… ...

Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux was a renowned Black preacher and broadcaster. Radio Diaries' series "Making Waves" looks at his life and his contentious relationship with Martin Luther King Jr.

A black evangelist is causing a stir on social media after making an emotional speech about her blackness and the intersection of her religion. Priscilla Shirer who is also a prolific speaker, ...

Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux was a pioneering evangelist. The preacher launched a radio show, “The Radio Church of God,” in 1929 to national acclaim. About two decades later, he became the ...

GULFPORT, Miss. — One Sunday morning in June 1924, thousands of Mississippians — Black and white — flocked to a bayou in Gulfport, along Mississippi's Gulf Coast.

The name of evangelist Harriet (Cole) Baker came up again this year at the Pennsylvania Black History Conference at West Chester University. Baker (1829-1913) spent the final 15 years of her life ...

Black Preacher: Why I Forgave George Wallace. In the wake of the tornadoes that ravaged Tuscaloosa, Ala., CNN's Wayne Drash encountered an African-American preacher who explained why he was ...

This determined-looking woman is black evangelist Harriet Baker. Born into slavery on a Maryland plantation in 1829, she fled to Pennsylvania with her husband, William, in the 1850s. When a Lancast… ...

A Black Evangelist Who Opposed King. Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux was a pioneering evangelist. Posted 2:11 a.m. Apr 3, 2018 — Updated 2:11 a.m. Apr 3, 2018 ...