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

Selma's historic civil rights landmark joins four other Black churches receiving funds from the African American Cultural ...

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 ...

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

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

Even during his lifetime, Washington faced criticism for holding slaves. In 1775, British essayist Samuel Johnson criticized ...

The $5 million in grants, part of the Preserving Black Churches program of the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund ...

The African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund has awarded $5 million in grants to five historically Black churches.

The Society Hill church, founded in 1791, is recognized as the nation's first African Methodist Episcopal Church and sits on ...

DELPHI, Ind. -- Attorneys for the suspect in the 2017 killing of two teenage girls in Delphi, Indiana, said in a statement Friday that their client "has nothing to hide. " Richard Allen, who was ...

Union Trinity AME Church, one of Philadelphia’s historic Black religious institutions and known as “The Friendly Church,” was vandalized with racist graffiti over the weekend. Pastor Tianda ...

Former Gov. Richard J. Codey, who spent fifty years in the New Jersey Legislature – the longest tenure in New Jersey history – and spent fourteen months as the governor of New Jersey, died this ...