In the 84 years that have passed since it was erected there, the church has served as a community center for one of the city’s few remaining historically Black neighborhoods, a home to pioneers ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A fire that severely damaged a historic Black church that served as the headquarters for a 1968 sanitation workers’ strike, which brought the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr ...

TAMPA, Fla. — The Tampa Bay History Center and members of Tampa’s oldest Black churches are teaming up for an event that dives into the history of Tampa’s Central Avenue Corridor.

Officers were called to West Derby Village in Liverpool just after 22:00 BST on Friday following reports of youths causing a disturbance outside St Mary the Virgin church while choir practice was ...

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(AP) — Several foundations have donated $1.5 million to help rebuild after arson gutted a historic Black church in Memphis, Tenn., that played an important role in the civil rights movement.

The northeast corner of Houston is home to communities like Fifth Ward, Kashmere Gardens, and Trinity–Houston Gardens—African American neighborhoods with churches dotting most street corners.

Black church: A history of helping Since the beginning, African-American houses of worship have served as epicenters of their communities and as a loud voice on social justice issues, ranging from ...

Word In Black Dr. Marco Merrick conducting Baltimore's Community Concert Choir. (WIB) - On Pentecost Sunday, June 8, the ...

(WJAR) — The Acting U.S. Attorney Sara Bloom announced that a man was sentenced for setting multiple fires around a predominantly Black church in North Providence. According to authorities ...

Kevin Colantonio, 36, was sentenced to 78 months in prison for attempting to burn down a predominantly Black church. Colantonio pleaded guilty to arson and obstruction of religious freedom ...