Lynching Preachers
The Role of Religion and Racial Violence in America’s Lynching Era: How black pastors resisted Jim Crow and white pastors incited racial violence. Between 1883...
Category : Religion
How the King James Bible Came to Be
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Precisely 451 years after the June 19, 1566, birth of King James I of England, one achievement of his reign still stands above the rest:...
William Decker Johnson
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William Decker Johnson was the 42nd Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church and founder of Johnson Home Industrial College in Archery, Georgia. Born...
Harlem’s Ethiopian Jews
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Alexander Alland’s Ethiopian Hebrews (c.1940) is a series of photographs in the Jewish Museum collection that documents the interior lives of a community of black...
Rabbi Arnold Josiah Ford
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Rabbi Arnold Josiah Ford was born on April 23, 1877, in Bridgetown, Barbados, to Edward Thomas Ford and Elizabeth Augustine Ford. He claimed that his...
Rufus Jones
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Rufus Jones was a highly influential American Quaker. He was one of the founders of the American Friends Service Committee and an instigator of the...
Howard Thurman
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Howard Thurman, in full Howard Washington Thurman, (born Nov. 18, 1899, Daytona Beach, Fla., U.S.—died April 10, 1981, San Francisco, Calif.), American Baptist preacher and...
Rabbi Tiferet Berenbaum
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Rabbi Tiferet Berenbaum was eleven years old and a Brookline resident when someone in a supermarket handed her a brochure about Shabbat. A good student...
Rev. Angel Kyodo Williams
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Called “the most intriguing African-American Buddhist” by Library Journal, Rev. angel Kyodo Williams Sensei, is an author, maverick spiritual teacher, master trainer, and founder of...
John Berry Meachum
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John Berry Meachum was born into slavery in Goochland County, Virginia. His master took him to North Carolina and then Kentucky. Meachum learned several trades,...