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  • 21 Feb 2010
    African American Lectionary project affirms Black culture and faith

    Using culture as a lens to view the black community, the African American Lectionary project is providing a one-of-a-kind technological resource designed for and by African American preachers.

  • 28 Apr 2008
    Black clergy in USA say gays face same rights struggle as black people

    Two senior black United Methodist clergy in the USA, also longtime civil-rights advocates, say there are parallels between the struggles of blacks in the 1960s and those of gays and lesbians working for full inclusion in the church today.

  • 15 Jan 2008
    Obama's church congregation furious at 'racism' accusations

    The head of the United Church of Christ denomination in the USA has reacted with anger and frustration to accusations of racism circulating about it largest congregation, which is also Senator Barack Obama's home church.

  • 31 Dec 2006
    Black church leaders want review of Mental Health Bill race provisions

    Bishop Dr Joe Aldred, chair of the Council of Black-led Churches and the Rev Nezlin Sterling, chair of the African Caribbean Evangelical Alliance and a president of Churches Together in Britain and Ireland, are among the Christian leaders backing Black Mental Health UK's call for the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) to examine the Department of Health's handling of the race review in the government's new Mental Health Bill.