Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux was a pioneering evangelist. About two decades later, he became the first minister with a weekly television show. He spread a gospel of individual salvation, saying ...

One of early Americaís most remarkable men was the illiterate slave who, once heíd earned his freedom, became famous as the Methodist evangelist, Black Harry. Since Harry was both impoverished and ...

He wanted white believers to reckon with “cultural captivity,” but saw them become “more and more American and less and less Christian.” Bill Pannell, a Black evangelical who pushed white evangelicals ...

A new exhibition of rarely seen images and artifacts chronicles the African American religious experience “Spirit in the Dark: Religion in Black Music, Activism and Popular Culture,” (above: Nina ...