The Guild of Mystics have set up their wagons in the cursed woods on the outskirts of Darkmoor Village. Here they sell colorful t-shirts and other werewolf-themed souvenirs and apparel, monster-themed ...

In this personal essay, writer and bookseller Katie Mitchell reflects on the enduring love, legacy and literary devotion of ...

Through the Shrine of the Black Madonna, they’ve created the grocery program with Race For Unity, in which food they’ve grown or purchased is provided for families. Since July 2020 ...

The “Black Church in Detroit” series examines faith-based efforts to support youth mental health. Detroit's faith-based community is helping address the escalating mental health crisis among ...

Standing in the pews at the Shrine of the Black of Madonna church on Detroit's west side, Diana Nilaja Stewart gazes at a painting that stretches high in the chancel — a black Jesus and black ...

He said the Shrine of the Black Madonna was “a kind of counter-cultural Black nationalist church” that was founded in 1967 by pastor Albert Cleage Jr. It advocated for Black self-determination ...

In Houston, in the wake of the murder of Michael Brown in 2014, Nailah Nelson, head of the Shrine of the Black Madonna’s Cultural and Event Center, founded the Buy Black Marketplace. Since then ...

Marcus Books in Oakland still stands, as does Medu and the Shrine of the Black Madonna in Atlanta, and there are new bookstores opening across the country. The songs are still being sung.

The fiery scion of a prominent African American family in Detroit, Albert Cleage Jr. took a more militant stance than his elders, building the Shrine of the Black Madonna and expanding into ...

Somewhat radical for his time, Cleage renamed his Church “The Shrine of the Black Madonna.” It became the hub for Black Christian Nationalism, a new political movement promoting “Black ...

This history focusses on one such experiment: Detroit’s Shrine of the Black Madonna church, led by Albert Cleage, Jr., a visionary preacher. Cleage believed that Black churches had to be ...

Early in Aaron Robertson’s extraordinary new work of history and memoir, “The Black Utopians,” he writes about one of his central characters, Glanton Dowdell, then a teenager, playing a game.