These congregations are struggling to attract younger members. That has consequences for social cohesion and Black political power writ large. Church membership ... would try to meet Gen-Z voters ...

In the early 2000s, Trinity found itself under fire during the election of President Barack Obama, who was a member of ... other place to meet, they could meet at a Black church,” Tisby said.

And Black churches, in the years since the first reported cases in 1981, suffered from the deaths of so many musicians and choir members, many of whom contracted HIV, lived with AIDS and died from ...