Lela Johnson, 97, was a member of one of the oldest Black churches in North Carolina. She recalls lugging water from the nearby springs for the building and carrying wood before service to make a fire ...
Brevard’s Chapel United Methodist Church is one of the oldest Black churches in the Charlotte area. Michael Conroy AP One of the oldest Black churches in the Charlotte area is scheduled to be razed, ...
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — Resiliency and resistance. This is a theme Mother Emanuel AME Church has kept since the beginning. Mother Emanuel is the largest African American church in Charleston and one ...
*Black churches across the United States, many of which have served as anchors for African American communities for generations, will soon have a new opportunity for preservation funding. The African ...
The African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund opened applications this week for its Preserving Black Churches grant program, which aims to amplifly Black history. As part of the National Trust ...
A more than 100-year-old church that continues to serve a Black community in Otero County is now on the National Register of Historic Places. The United Methodist Church in Manzanola was built in 1908 ...
The Greater Rose Hill Missionary Baptist Church has stood for over a century. Now it hopes to become permanent.
Charleston's first Black Catholic church was awarded thousands in a grant that will fund renovations to the building.