James Paul Anderson — known as the “Killer Clown” for his previous gig as party jester Mister Jazzz — cheated justice by ...

In 1934, the Washington Post called Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux the "best known" Black man in America. They weren't wrong. By that year, Michaux, preacher and founder of the Gospel Spreading ...

It’s been a stubborn reality for women in the Black church: Men who are called to preach are readily accepted, but women struggle to have their call even acknowledged, much less get encouragement to ...

Minutes after three men in Brunswick, Georgia, were found guilty of killing jogger Ahmaud Arbery, the Rev. Al Sharpton led a large crowd gathered outside the Glynn County Courthouse in prayer. People ...

ST. LOUIS -- Decades before televangelists like Joel Osteen and T.D. Jakes, there were ministers like J.M. Gates and J.C. Burnett: phonograph preachers trying to compete with the influence of jazz and ...