Sentences with phrase «historically black church»

Roof's brother, Dylann, was formally sentenced to death last year for killing nine people at a historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina in 2015.

That action split the historically black church, prompting half of the congregation to leave.

Evangelicals and historically black churches strengthened their certainty in their belief, but other religious groups have become more doubtful:

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Historically, black churches have been clergy - dominated.

The question is whether black churches can continue to be the instruments of empowerment that they historically have been.

Her research takes this concept further as she examined historically black colleges and universities, Freedom Schools, and churches where she discovered further evidence of this approach to civic engagement.

Kevin Cosby is head of the historically black Simmons College and pastor of St. Stephen Church.