NEW YORK-- A prominent Black church in Manhattan is being sued for gender bias by a woman who sought to be its senior pastor. A new lawsuit in federal court accuses Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem ...

The Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem has filed a motion through its attorneys to dismiss a lawsuit filed in October by four current and/or former church members who are seeking to overturn the ...

Over its 215-year history, the Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York City has earned a reputation as the flagship of the Black church in America. Based in Harlem, it became a famous megachurch with ...

Behind the opaque process that just selected the next pastor at Abyssinian Baptist Church. By Ginia Bellafante Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem and one of its most well-known members have been ...

A search committee previously sued for gender discrimination over its hiring process has announced its pick for the next senior pastor of a prominent New York City congregation considered by some to ...

A federal judge has dismissed a gender discrimination lawsuit brought against Abyssinian Baptist Church by a onetime candidate to be the historic Harlem church’s senior pastor, the sole female ...

There are no politics more brutal than church politics, and there is no politician who knows that better than Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg. Before he took a seat on the front row of a Manhattan criminal ...

The congregation at Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, New York, selected the Rev. Kevin Johnson, pastor of Dare to Imagine Church in Mount Airy, as its senior pastor on Sunday. Johnson is scheduled ...

Dessoff joins forces with the Cathedral Choir of Abyssinian Baptist Church in a performance of this enduring masterpiece, Elijah, at Abyssinian’s landmark location in Central Harlem. Featuring Davone ...

*As we reported earlier, Roberta Flack, the beloved Grammy-winning singer celebrated for her soulful hits like “Killing Me Softly With His Song” and “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,” passed away ...

After the prayer and praise comes the pomp and pageantry. We wanted to capture the beauty of it, and so this Easter we headed to Harlem’s historical Abyssinian Baptist Church to behold Easter fashion ...

Butts Wants Police to Rein in ‘Savages’ in the Department Rev Calvin O Butts III, pastor of Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, and other black leaders demand that city adopt changes in policing to ...