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 ...

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

Morning, y’all! Punxsutawney Phil (whose name I spelled right on the first try, not to brag) saw his shadow yesterday, which means six more weeks of winter. Whatever, you giant weather rodent. We were ...

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.

The Eucharist is not simply a cultural legacy. It is more than a moving performance or a beautiful ritual symbolizing ...

"Generations after us will be able to say that's where history was made," said Guilford County Commissioners Chair Melvin ...

Stewart, a longtime civil rights advocate, was born in Kansas in 1951 and moved to Phoenix in 1977. He is the longest-serving senior pastor in the history of a church that says it is the oldest ...

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 ...

Former Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson said his mom Georgia Rose Peat West loved a good story, and her memorial service featured more than a few.

A viral clip of a pastor's reaction to a young woman's pregnancy sparks outrage and debate about church traditions, shame, ...