{"id":99818,"date":"2021-02-24T16:15:26","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T21:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=99818"},"modified":"2021-02-24T18:40:35","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T23:40:35","slug":"prc-three-quarters-of-black-americans-say-black-churches-have-helped-promote-racial-equality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=99818","title":{"rendered":"(PRC) Three-quarters of Black Americans say Black churches have helped promote racial equality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though primarily places of worship, Black churches have long played prominent roles in African American communities, offering services such as job training programs and insurance cooperatives, and many of their pastors have advocated for racial equality. Today, around three-quarters of Black adults say predominantly Black churches have done either \u201ca great deal\u201d (29%) or \u201csome\u201d (48%) to help Black people move toward equality in the United States, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewforum.org\/2021\/02\/16\/churches-and-religion-in-black-american-life\/#most-black-americans-credit-civil-rights-organizations-predominantly-black-churches-for-helping-black-people-move-toward-equality-fewer-cite-government-white-churches\">new Pew Research Center survey.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That is lower than the share of Black adults crediting civil rights organizations a great deal or some (89%) but higher than the share who credit the federal government (55%), predominantly Black Muslim organizations such as the Nation of Islam (54%), or predominantly White churches (38%).<\/p>\n<p>Majorities of Black adults, irrespective of the racial composition of their house of worship or whether they attend one at all, say predominantly Black churches have done at least some to help Black Americans. Even 66% of Black Americans who are religiously unaffiliated \u2013 describing themselves as atheists, agnostics or \u201cnothing in particular\u201d \u2013 hold this view, according to the survey of 8,660 Black American adults conducted Nov. 19, 2019, through June 3, 2020.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2021\/02\/19\/three-quarters-of-black-americans-say-black-churches-have-helped-promote-racial-equality\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Around three-quarters of Black Americans (77%) say Black churches have helped promote racial equality in the United States, according to our recent survey. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eedwFnt2UU\">https:\/\/t.co\/eedwFnt2UU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pew Research Fact Tank (@FactTank) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FactTank\/status\/1364008074797846529?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 23, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though primarily places of worship, Black churches have long played prominent roles in African American communities, offering services such as job training programs and insurance cooperatives, and many of their pastors have advocated for racial equality. Today, around three-quarters of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=99818\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,120,108,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-racerace-relations","category-religion-culture","category-sociology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99818"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99822,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99818\/revisions\/99822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}