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The community of Columbia, Tennessee, is uniting against hatred following the discovery of Ku Klux Klan (KKK) recruitment flyers at three primarily Black churches in the area.

The new grant program honors the history of Black churches ‘while also investing in their physical permanence and financial sustainment into the future,’ an official said.

African American churches are more important to the Southern Baptist Convention than ever before, Jamie Dew told Baptist Press at the Black Church Leadership and Family Conference at Ridgecrest Conference Center.

A new effort to preserve historic Black churches in the United States has received a $20 million donation that will go to help congregations.

Most Black Christian denominations have ordained women since at least the 19th century. Yet denominational leadership remained all-male until the 21st century, and women are still the exception in leadership.

In an interview with Religion News Service, Christian writer Danté Stewart discusses his experiences with white evangelicalism, learning to embrace the Black church tradition of his upbringing, and expanding his "theological imagination" to include the Black experience.

A video of Vice President Kamala Harris promoting Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe will be broadcast in more than 300 Black churches from Oct. 17 to Nov. 2.

Archaeologists believe they have discovered the foundation of the original building of the First Baptist Church in Williamsburg, Virginia, one of the nation’s oldest Black churches.