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

Investigators in Tennessee say 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 ...

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. The fire at Clayborn ...

It is the language I learned at the feet of my grandmother, church mothers, and elders. It is the language I learned in the storefront church of my youth. I speak Black Church in my private devotions ...

A historic Black church took the Proud Boys to court. Now it controls their trademark A judge awarded the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church $2.8 million in damages in 2023 ...

The church can seize money the Proud Boys make through merchandise sales. And the congregation has begun to sell lookalike shirts on its website with lines like “Stay Proud, Stay Black.” It ...

In February, after the Proud Boys didn’t pay, the court gave the church use of the group’s name and symbols — seen on its black-and-yellow gear and laurel wreath logo.

By Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. For over 198 years the Black Press and the Black Church have joined together for causes of freedom, justice, equality, equity and empowerment.

Black Churches—and Democratic politicians alike—will need to adjust to these nuances to maintain a relevant foothold with the people it helped plant a political foundation for.

And Black churches are more likely to offer services for the elderly, tutoring or GED classes for students, outreach to incarcerated people and citizenship and voter-registration programs.

The National Trust for Historic Preservation’s African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund is awarding $8.5 million in grants to 30 historically Black Churches as a part of its third annual ...

A historic Black building in Odessa, Zoar Church, was recently awarded a $250,000 grant to aid restoration efforts. News Sports Life First State Favorites Advertise Obituaries eNewspaper Legals LOCAL ...