Nearly 10 years ago, the New York University professor, historian and Pulitzer Prize winner was sitting in historic First Congregational Church, admiring a triptych of stained glass windows installed ...

Rev. Melech E.M. Thomas becomes the 24th pastor of historic Baltimore church Payne Memorial AME. His journey from rap to ...

A century ago, Al Smith was a force in American politics—and the first Catholic to mount a major run at the White House. And ...

The second event in a year-long schedule of events celebrating the bicentennial of one of the most formative years in Crawford County history takes place March 8. “Meadville Ebony Genealogy of Sorts” ...

Parish in 1997, NCR uncovered the groundbreaking ministry of Fr. James Callan, a priest whose daring vision would soon shake ...

The Stroudsburg Little Bethel Historical Association has worked for years to restore the African Methodist Episcopal Church ...

The Beech Island Historical Society will meet at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 18, in the society's history and visitor's center, ...

Hale's son-in-law became the first Black physician in Alabama. Thompson plans to write a biography about Hale and continues ...

Carolyn Cavaness has become the first female pastor of Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Center City.

A long-defunct motel on Flanders Road, converted into apartments, is a reminder of the once-thriving Black business district in Riverside. David Peter Fitzgerald, whose father built the motel in ...

Anna Bishop graduated high school at 15, college by 19, and spent decades teaching. She lived and wrote about Black life and ...

Before the highway was built, the Laurel-Clayton neighborhood of Worcester provided a sanctuary and home for the local Black ...