Madonna gave fans a look at her wardrobe in her $40M New York City apartment, featuring designer pieces like Saint Sass ...

The book is a celebration of spaces, past and present, where Black intellect, activism and community flourish. :: In the ...

Through the Shrine of the Black Madonna, they’ve created the grocery program with Race For Unity, in which food they’ve grown or purchased is provided for families. Since July 2020 ...

Madonna took to Instagram on June 12 to show off her custom "one of one" handbag by Aupen, a brand previously worn by Taylor ...

In this personal essay, writer and bookseller Katie Mitchell reflects on the enduring love, legacy and literary devotion of ...

Standing in the pews at the Shrine of the Black of Madonna church on Detroit's west side, Diana Nilaja Stewart gazes at a painting that stretches high in the chancel — a black Jesus and black ...

He said the Shrine of the Black Madonna was “a kind of counter-cultural Black nationalist church” that was founded in 1967 by pastor Albert Cleage Jr. It advocated for Black self-determination ...

In Houston, in the wake of the murder of Michael Brown in 2014, Nailah Nelson, head of the Shrine of the Black Madonna’s Cultural and Event Center, founded the Buy Black Marketplace. Since then ...

Marcus Books in Oakland still stands, as does Medu and the Shrine of the Black Madonna in Atlanta, and there are new bookstores opening across the country. The songs are still being sung.

The fiery scion of a prominent African American family in Detroit, Albert Cleage Jr. took a more militant stance than his elders, building the Shrine of the Black Madonna and expanding into ...

Somewhat radical for his time, Cleage renamed his Church “The Shrine of the Black Madonna.” It became the hub for Black Christian Nationalism, a new political movement promoting “Black ...

This history focusses on one such experiment: Detroit’s Shrine of the Black Madonna church, led by Albert Cleage, Jr., a visionary preacher. Cleage believed that Black churches had to be ...