African American churches provided spiritual and practical support for civil rights advocates. The militant rhetoric of the black power movement troubled many ministers, but others supported demands for fundamental and immediate change. The Nation...Read More
The Earl W. and Amanda Stafford Center for African American Media Arts and the Center for the Study of African American Religious Life are proud to present the public program Cinema + Conversation: Let the Church Say Amen!. The title film is a...Read More
As a multiethnic movement that continued the work initiated by the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the Poor People’s Campaign marked an important chapter in the history of American activism and democracy.Read More