The following article on Spirituality and African American Women was published in the 2018 National Coalition on Black Civic Participation’s (NCBCP) Black Women’s Roundtable (BWR) Fifth Annual Black Women in the U.S. Report. -------- Overview African American women today, facing escalating racism, sexism, misogyny, and civil rights reversals, must rely on both liberating religious values and heightened spirituality, to survive and thrive. While Americans today increasingly id