The National Baptist Convention, USA is the nation's largest Black Protestant denomination and it recently gathered for its 2025 annual session, the first under freshman president Rev. Boise Kimber.

The National Baptist Convention ordained its first woman preacher in 1965. Reverend Tracey L. Brown became the first woman to preach at a worship service during the National Baptist Convention, U.S.A.

(RNS) — In his closing remarks at the National Baptist Convention USA’s annual session, its new president recounted the connections the historically Black denomination is forming with other ...