Shiite rituals for Ashoura in Damascus have drastically changed after the fall of Syria's former President Bashar Assad.

The Marian shrine, located about 25 miles north of Philadelphia, was established in 1955 by a Polish priest from the Order of ...

The Black Slate'd chair said the endorsement reflects the idea that areas like Seven Mile and Strathmore should get the same ...

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.

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.

“One of the ways that some of the people were able to start to imagine a different life for themselves was through this beautiful mural that exists in the shrine of the Black Madonna in Detroit. It's ...

The holiday was created to celebrate Black culture and promote unity among African Americans. It is observed from Dec. 26 to Jan. 1, culminating in a feast known as Karamu.

At its peak, the Shrine — renamed in 1978 as the Shrine of the Black Madonna of the Pan-African Orthodox Christian Church — had eight churches in Michigan, five of them in Detroit. Today it is ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Despite this peripatetic religious upbringing, it took until 2019 for Robertson to encounter his native city’s Shrine of the Black Madonna, a United Church of Christ congregation that birthed a ...