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Celebrating The Lives of People of Color

For many Blacks, holiday is time to remember ancestors – The Philadelphia Tribune

December 30, 2016African American Church, African American Lives ...

On Dec. 31, 1862, free and enslaved Blacks congregated in churches, homes and on plantations to await the news of their impending freedom.

Daughter of Prominent Civil Rights Pastor Says the Church Must Re-Commit to Social Gospel

July 28, 2016African American Art, African American Church ...

The institutional church, which has largely embraced the prosperity gospels, must return to its original social justice commitment, says Jennifer Jones Austin.

African-American Churches Worth More to Austin Than Their Land Value

June 9, 2016June 12, 2016Community, Religion ...

As I toured the trendy Bouldin Creek neighborhood — west of South Congress Avenue and just south of Lady Bird Lake — I could see remnants of a once-thriving black community of freed slaves who lived in this area following the Civil War and into the 1950s.