Deborrah Cooper is the author of the controversial article sweeping radio airwaves and the web entitled "The Black Church - How The Black Church Keeps African American Women Single and Lonely." This article single-handedly served as the impetus for much needed discussion on the Institutional Black Church and its damaging role in the lives of Black women.

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Deborrah Cooper is the author of the controversial article sweeping radio airwaves and the web entitled "The Black Church - How The Black Church Keeps African American Women Single and Lonely." This article single-handedly served as the impetus for much needed discussion on the Institutional Black Church and its damaging role in the lives of Black women.

Following on the heels of interviews with Tom Joyner, Michael Eric Dyson, and CNN, Cooper asks again: Is the church truly meeting the needs of Black women or is it a drain on female energy and resources? What are Black churches doing right here, right now for the Black women and the communities in which they reside? Why are so many church going Black women on their knees for years and years, praying and waiting for a husband that never comes?

With churches on just about every corner in Black neighborhoods, and the people in those areas still poverty stricken, unemployed and women and children still without the love of a Black man, what good are churches for women? Why do Black women spend so much of their money, energy and time going to church and listening to men telling them to wait, and wait and wait?

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