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The Church Hat Collections of Veda Rawlings and Ellen Berts" is an exhibition of Black church lady hats. Many colors, styles ...
Discover some of the architecture and history of Cleveland's Black churches, many of which congregations are trying to ...
I stopped dressing up for church. Until then my typical Sunday outfit consisted of either one of my better dresses or a skirt ...
The oldest Black Protestant denomination in the U.S. held an investiture ceremony for its new bishops' council president in ...
The Rev. Dr. Brown explained in a 2019 Church News video that “Come, Come Ye Saints” and the iconic Black spiritual “Lift ...
The negro can go into the circus, the theater, the cars … but cannot go into an Evangelical Christian meeting,” an elderly Frederick Douglass exclaimed in 1885 to a crowd in the nation’s capital.” ...
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — The rebuilding of one of the nation’s oldest Black churches, whose congregants first gathered outdoors in secret before constructing a wooden meetinghouse in Virginia ...
Jun. 19—Ahead of Juneteenth, leaders of local, historic African American churches reflected on the importance of the church for the Black community in Decatur. Juneteenth commemorates the day ...
From left, Reginald F. Davis, pastor of First Baptist Church, Connie Matthews Harshaw, a member of First Baptist, and Jack Gary, Colonial Williamsburg's director of archaeology, stand at the brick ...
Douglass never returned. Instead, he joined a local branch of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, a Black denomination that was formed in New York City in 1821.
"In this litigation, the religious-exercise claims of a minority entheogenic religion put the State of Utah's commitment to religious freedom to the test," Parrish wrote in Jensen v. Utah County.
Ahead of Juneteenth, leaders of local, historic African American churches reflected on the importance of the church for the Black community in Decatur.