African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (AME Zion) is a historically African American Methodist denomination headquartered in the United States, organized into episcopal districts in the U.S., Africa, and elsewhere. Its website provides information on its bishops, departments, affiliated colleges and universities, publications, and church events.www.amez.org
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Oct 31, 2026
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And Southside comes out of that development from black women leadership.
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Our first six free slaves of Ithaca actually built the AME Zion Church here.
speaker_11SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So one of our oldest black churches in the nation.
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And then through there, neighborhood women put together $230 to purchase the center for Southside Community Center and then just continue to serve as a community resource throughout the hundred years.
speaker_10SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And Southside comes out of that development from Black women leadership.
speaker_11SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Our first six freed slaves of Ithaca actually built the AME Zion Church here, so one of our oldest Black churches in the nation.
speaker_11SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And then through there, neighborhood women put together $230 to purchase the center, the Southside Community Center, and then just continued to serve as a community resource throughout the 100 years.
speaker_11SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
That's incredible.
Anthony WilliamsGUEST
It depends on the situation of the domination because church politics are something else.
Anthony WilliamsGUEST
When you talk about the AME Church, the AME Zion, the CME, they got some politics, particularly when somebody wants to be the bishop.
Anthony WilliamsGUEST
But the whole thing is that they're all human beings.
Anthony WilliamsGUEST
But I know and I look at history is that it is the church, the black church, that has and will continue to move the needle forward.
Alan BoomerHOST
There were 40 to 45 schools that came out of the black church and black church affiliated religious organizations.
Alan BoomerHOST
So the AME Church, the AME Zion Church, the Colored Methodist Episcopal CME Church.
Alan BoomerHOST
I never even heard of that one.
Alan BoomerHOST
And the Black Baptist Alliances, like schools that they created.
Brooke AshleyHOST
She says that her dad was a retired pastor of 40 years.
Brooke AshleyHOST
Now he's a part of the executive leadership of the AME Zion Church.
Brooke AshleyHOST
I said, oh, OK, come on, AME Zion.
Brooke AshleyHOST
I grew up in an AME Zion Church.
Brooke AshleyHOST
So that's I love it.
Brooke AshleyHOST
So now she says, it's always been a lot of pressure being a pastor's daughter.
Don SpielisHOST
He reminded people that Jesus himself was publicly executed and argued that turning an execution into a spectacle contradicts the gospel.
Don SpielisHOST
And the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church issued a statement condemning the proposed broadcast while explicitly acknowledging the horror of Hassan's crimes.
Don SpielisHOST
So this isn't some simple argument between religious conservatives who support punishment and secular liberals who oppose it.
Don SpielisHOST
It's a disagreement about what justice requires and whether the public display of death is compatible with the moral values that people claim to hold.
Lewis PorterGUEST
But the religious thing was interesting because as for many black Americans, he came from a very religious Christian family.
Lewis PorterGUEST
Mostly they were AME Zion, African Methodist Episcopal Zion.
Lewis PorterGUEST
Although both he and his cousin, who we call Cousin Mary, he wrote a song for her, of course, a blues song.
Lewis PorterGUEST
They both described themselves as Methodists.
Ed WardGUEST
They didn't have a band.
Ed WardGUEST
But the psalms that Dorsey and his fellow songwriters wrote, especially when the AME Zion Church approved the use of sacred pop music, as it were, in its services And as a fundraising event where there was a whole gospel circuit where these groups eventually hit the road, just like jazz performers did, and went from church to church to revival to the occasional big show in an auditorium.
Ed WardGUEST
This was what he was at the ground floor of.
Ed WardGUEST
And there were other...