(RNS) — One of the removed panels featured images of Richard Allen and Absalom Jones. Both born as enslaved persons, they ...

Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma is among a group of historic churches nationwide being awarded $1 million grants. The ...

Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church has stood at 6th and Lombard Streets for more than 230 years.It is the oldest parcel of land continuously owned by African Americans in the United ...

A downtown Greenville church wants to tear down a vacant West End National Register of Historic Places home, but the city ...

Natchez unveils Black History Month 2026 events, from youth literacy and church programs to cultural tours, museum exhibits, ...

Removing a slavery exhibit in Philadelphia revives a 250-year-old American debate.

This week on FYI Philly, we take you to new spots for Italian and French fare, a Yemeni food favorite, a one-stop shop for ...

Our colored fellow citizens of the Methodist persuasion are engaged in putting up a fine new church edifice near the location ...

(RNS) — The $5 million in grants, part of the Preserving Black Churches program of the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund, were announced on Monday (Jan. 19) to mark Martin Luther King Jr.

Nearly a quarter century ago, Black activists fought relentlessly to memorialize the lives of nine people enslaved at the first presidential mansion. On Saturday, the leader of that decade-long battle ...

Philadelphia's Mother Bethel AME Church is one of five African American churches chosen to receive a $1 million grant from ...

American religious history is rife with protest movements. Yet political protests inside a house of worship are unusual.