It is rumored that many of the streets in Mooretown, which has since become a neighborhood in Shreveport, were named after ...

The U.S. Catholic Church has a painful history of racism. One step toward healing could be canonization of the six African ...

St. John African Methodist Episcopal Church is the first African-American church established during the antebellum period.

Buried among Florida's manicured golf courses and sprawling suburbs are the artifacts of its slave-holding past: the ...

The once-vibrant Benton Avenue AME church will soon become a stop on the African American Heritage Trail in Greene County.

Today, the Craddocks continue to celebrate Kwanzaa together. But after the sister duo founded The Dock Bookshop in 2008, one of the “largest African American-owned, full-service bookstores in Texas ...

Through powerful storytelling, a new documentary tells the story of Mt. Olive Cemetery and uncovers the forgotten history ...

One of Kokomo's newest downtown murals, titled “Hometown Heroes,” honors one of its most overlooked contributions to American ...

According to the 2007 African American Missions Mobilization Manifesto by Columbia International ... Coleman isn't trying to denounce the black church. He understands the history behind some of the ...

In Born in Blackness, Howard W. French explores Africa’s critical role in shaping the modern world through the transatlantic ...

Following is a month-by-month look back at the top local news stories from 2024 as reported by The Times-Gazette. We wish our ...