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The Bicentennial Speaker Series sponsored by the Historical Society of Quincy and Adams County and John Wood Community College continues over the summer months with programs the second ...
American officials welcomed a group of 59 white South Africans at Washington Dulles International Airport on Monday afternoon, in a ceremony greeting ... after a new South African land law went ...
Black churches are rallying behind the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture as Trump’s new order threatens its future. The support comes after Trump released ...
Bishop Timothy Clarke of the First Church of God in Columbus, Ohio, said he would be emulating Moss in making an appeal to his predominantly African American congregation. “Our grandson is in DC ...
As he does one day each month, the Rev. Robert Turner hit the road from his home in Baltimore last week and traveled — on foot — 43 miles (69 kilometers) to Washington. He arrived by evening ...
Pope Francis, the first Latin American head of the Roman Catholic ... Justice and Peace From humble beginnings in a small African town, Cardinal Peter Turkson has gone on to great things in the Church ...
We didn’t stomp our feet,” said the 64-year-old, in reference to two common African American church practices ... bring them to Sunday service, and greeting oldcomers and newcomers alike ...
On Sundays, Manor resident Ardtria Griffin wakes before dawn to pray, put on her black or red usher’s uniform and make the long drive to her church in central East Austin. In recent months, she ...
A new marker in Springfield, Missouri, honors historic Black churches. Drury University is renovating one of the churches, Benton Avenue African Methodist Episcopal Church, into an education center.
The marker recognizes the churches' roles as places of worship ... the newest marker along the Springfield-Greene County African American Heritage Trail. The event will start at 4 p.m. Monday ...