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The Black Church

A Christian woman in African

In time for Easter, new exhibit explores Christianity’s African Roots

Nana Ekua-Hammond, Ebony.com
With a new exhibit called “Ashe to Amen: African Americans and Biblical Imagery,” Dr. Leslie King-Hammond examines what Black people did with the religion once they were in America.
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An interracial gay couple preparing to marry

Black church ponders change during marriage equality fight

Mashaun D. Simon
theGRIO REPORT - While many across America are hopeful that the Supreme Court will react on the side of the LGBTQ community regarding the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and Proposition 8, there are some black church leaders who do not foresee much change occurring within the black church in terms of gay acceptance...
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Bishop Eddie Long walks to the pulpit with his wife Vanessa Long

Bishop Eddie Long's wife discusses divorce 'storm' with congregation

Alexis Garrett Stodghill
theGRIO REPORT - Vanessa Long received a standing ovation for revealing her struggles almost exactly two years after her husband's accusers surfaced...
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A group of black people in a church holding up Chick-Fill-A bags

Blacks and Chick-Fil-A: Eating chicken is no expression of religious faith

Kirsten West-Savali
OPINION - It is most hilarious that some Christian blacks are rushing to eat fried chicken to show how righteously they stand against homosexuality...
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Black women singing in church

Is the black church to blame for obesity?

FrugivoreMag.com
A study last year tracked 2,433 participants, 41 percent of which were African American, for 18 years, only to find that those who attended one religious event weekly was more at risk for becoming obese.
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A woman participates in a service at Zion Baptist Church on April 1, 2012. (Photo by Linda Davidson/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

I love the black church but it doesn't love me

theGrio
OPINION - A theGrio reader speaks directly to those leaders of the black church who focus on what they call the 'sin' of homosexuality, sometimes to the exclusion of other issues of importance to black communities...
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Sophia Nelson and Michael Eric Dyson

WATCH: Nelson, Dyson debate gay marriage

theGrio
theGRIO REPORT - The same sex marriage debate spilled onto the airwaves and on Twitter last Thursday, when Michael Eric Dyson, an MSNBC contributor called out "sexual rednecks"...
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12. 2012 is just like 1860 – During the Georgia primary, Gingrich called November’s election “the most consequential” race since 1860 – the year President Abraham Lincoln won re-election, followed, of course, by the Civil War. Some saw the statement as loaded with dog whistles, especially delivered “down south.”

Is the black church in denial about sex?

Ama Yawson
OPINION - We are currently in the midst of a crisis and we are facing a decision: whether we are going to choose blindness and live in a Christian dream world...
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Black churchgoers wrestle with Obama, gay marriage

Amelia McGriff
theGRIO REPORT - On the first Sunday after President Barack Obama made history as the first U.S. president to openly support gay marriage, black voters were at odds...
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