stand at the brick-and-mortar foundation of one the oldest Black churches in the U.S. AP Photo/Ben Finley “We’ve been out there working hard, hand in hand, with our archaeological preservation ...

A documentary film created by a local filmmaker on the history of Black churches will ... follows the history of the Black churches that emerged after the Reconstruction and became the hearts ...

Black women and men created new civic, religious, political, educational, and economic institutions. They built thriving towns and districts, churches ... the work of Reconstruction never ended ...

During this pivotal late 19th-century migration, African Americans fled the post-Reconstruction ... Nicodemus. Photograph By Library of Congress The African Methodist Episcopal Church was a ...

(WDBJ) - A historically Black church in Galax ... following comes from Riverhill Baptists Church’s 150th Church Anniversary Celebration Book: “The Reconstruction Era (1865 - 1877) that ...

Stewart’s ghostly photograph of a New Orleans church organ ravaged by the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina is part of a career retrospective of his decades documenting Black life in America and ...

I felt I had reached the end of the noblest and best part of my life; my school was broken up, my church disbanded ... 11 They want a reconstruction such as will protect loyal men, black and ...