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Mother Emanuel held a special service 10 years to the day that nine members were killed in a targeted mass shooting.
Charleston, S.C., reflects on 10 years since a racially motivated attack on the historic Emanuel AME church. A white ...
June 17, 2019: “Emanuel” documentary released. NBA star Stephen Curry and actress Viola Davis are executive producers, with actress Mariska Hargitay as a co-producer. The film uses interviews from ...
Reporter Kevin Sack's new book is a history of Charleston's Emanuel AME Church, the oldest Black congregation in the South, ...
Educator Sherry M. Beasley read Kevin Sack’s new book about the history of Mother Emanuel and remembered the day after the 2015 church shooting when she cried in her classroom.
“However, in a church-oriented institution and AME, you still have to be God-like ... that no LGBTQIA+ experience is universal and uniform, institutions must be able to address the fact that ...
The church associated with the Underground Railroad was sold to Cape May after it burned in 2018. It’s now the home of East Lynne Theater Company. The Allen AME Church in Cape May, damaged by fire in ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The 51st Quadrennial Session of the General Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church met from July 6-10, 2021, at the West Concourse of the Orange County ...
On Sundays, Manor resident Ardtria Griffin wakes before dawn to pray, put on her black or red usher’s uniform and ... Black Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church and Ebenezer Third ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — There is so much history between the walls of Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church, which has hosted funerals for Rosa Parks and Frederick Douglass and opened its ...