The faith of Black America has been a gift to this nation

By Tariq I. El-Amin

For years, the Pew Research Center listed Black Americans as having the highest levels of religiosity and faith.

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., in fact, was known as “the moral conscience of America” by many Americans, irrespective of race. King was not exceptional in this regard.

Black people’s relationship with faith and spirituality has been essential to their survival in a society that has sanctioned, tacitly or explicitly, the brutalization and subjugation of Black bodies, historically and up to the present day.