The SC Department of Archives and History (SCDAH) administers the States’s historical marker program which was established in 1936, and is one of the oldest in the United States. This ...

At the heart of Buffalo's African American community, the Michigan Street Baptist Church has been around for nearly 200 years ...

Terry Alford, executive director of the Michigan Street African American Heritage Corridor, called the church "one of the ...

Weaver, CEO of Uncle Nearest Inc., is one of only five African American women to found and lead a $1B+ company in U.S.

Friendship Baptist Church is at 515 Richland Ave. E. Aiken City Council unanimously voted Sept. 12, 1994 to add the "Friendship African Baptist ... buildings: the sanctuary, an ...

Woolf said the church’s decision to allow immigrants to seek sanctuary was a religious one ... fight for our values,” Biss said. Jewish, Baptist, Muslim, Sikh and Christian faith leaders ...

We offer both a major and a minor in African American Studies, focusing on the exploration of African American experiences. Our goal is to help you understand the rich history and culture of African ...

By the time Dolly Marshall got into historic preservation professionally in the last decade, the former flight attendant and retail manager already had lots of homegrown experience. “I was ...

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. meets with influential African American figures, like Morgan Freeman, Chris Rock and Maya Angelou, to piece together their genealogy and disclose captivating facts about ...

One Sunday in May 1917, on the first day of services at the newly built First African Methodist Episcopal Church in Athens, the congregation celebrated with a processional and mortgage burning.

Lincoln Avenue Baptist Church located at 234 Lincoln Avenue in Newport, was established in 1921 from a Sunday School class that met at a nearby school. The group was composed of members of several ...

He is the longest-serving senior pastor in the history of a church that says it is the oldest African American Baptist church in Phoenix. "God be praised for inspiring me to unapologetically and ...