Six months after a stolen car crashed into St. John African Methodist Church for the second time in just half a year, the ...

Faith, fellowship and family collide at the Union Grove Missionary Baptist Church, a tightly knit congregation tucked just ...

In the early 1800s, the congregation acquired the property for the original church from a local white merchant. The land was low, soft and often soggy — hardly ideal for building, said Jack Gary ...

Trinity’s congregation included some of the city’s most prominent Black leaders: Rev. Cornelius Dawson, who helped found Barrett Early Learning Center in 1935; George Ferguson, who headed the ...

The First Baptist Church of Williamsburg established itself in 1776, although parishioners met before then in fields and under trees in defiance of laws that prevented African Americans from ...

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — The rebuilding of one of the nation’s oldest Black churches, ... The congregation numbered about 500, which included people on surrounding plantations.

Ground had been broken in Virginia for the rebuilding of one of the nation’s oldest Black churches. ... The congregation numbered about 500, which included people on surrounding plantations.

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — The rebuilding of one of the nation's oldest Black churches, ... The congregation numbered about 500, which included people on surrounding plantations.

Lela Johnson, 97, was a member of one of the oldest Black churches in North Carolina. She recalls lugging water from the ...

Mother Emanuel AME church made an ecumenical gesture for the commemoration of a racist shooting that killed nine of its Black members 10 years ago on Tuesday ...

Ground had been broken in Virginia for the rebuilding of one of the nation’s oldest Black churches. ... The congregation numbered about 500, which included people on surrounding plantations.