What if the key to understanding American democracy lies not in marble hallways but in a dusty Los Angeles horse stable, where a one-eyed Black preacher gathered people to pray? In the spring of 1906, ...

Bishop Carlton Pearson, the prominent religious and controversial leader who died of cancer in November, will be honored during a tribute to be held Monday at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta hotel in ...

The Bishop's splintered influence was underscored this week as different factions paid tribute to Pearson at various memorial services that have raised questions — and objections — about how best to ...

Before his peers would label him a heretic, the late Bishop Carlton D. Pearson was once one of the best known preachers in the nation. His skilled biblical oration, steeped in the Black Pentecostal ...

FILE - Bishop Carlton Pearson speaks at a news conference accompanied by several other clergy members, April 4, 2013, in Chicago. Before his peers would label him a heretic, the late Bishop Carlton D.