The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is now offering sleeveless garments for members in hot and humid climates, ...

At the same, it was getting tougher to find clothing, especially for women, that completely covered garments. Days after the church’s General Conference in April, the Utah-based faith’s First ...

But now that's changing. "Men are staying in church," Ruth Graham said at The New York Times, "while the women are leaving at a remarkable clip." Church membership has been dropping in the United ...

“Dr. Sherita Golden’s experience ironically aligns with most organizations’ typical and historic stance toward Black women,” shared DEI consultant and decolonial educator Joquina Reed.

Men commanded the pulpits of the black church; they also dominated church power and politics. Denied the chance to preach, growing numbers of women, mostly middle class, found ways to participate ...

This series examines the impacts of structural racism, sexism, and ableism on the education, health outcomes, and economic security of Black women and girls with disabilities in the United States.

In 2019, young Black women in particular were 60% more likely to attempt suicide than their white peers. In many Black communities, the church is often a hub for many services beyond spiritual uplift.

Centuries of racism, along with the harmful strong Black woman stereotype — that Black women are more resilient and inherently stronger than white women — have had catastrophic effects on the ...

That has consequences for social cohesion and Black political power writ large. Church membership has plunged among Black adults by almost 20 percentage points in the last two decades, according ...