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Taveau Chapel, a historic African-American church near Moncks Corner, will undergo restoration by an entourage of locals and organizations including Cynthia Gibbs from Cordesville, Mepkin Abbey ...
Volunteers Gather to Help Restore Historic African American Church in Addison By Noelle Walker • Published August 20, 2019 • Updated on August 20, 2019 at 6:33 pm • Published August 20, 2019 • ...
Armed only with love and courage, 70 African American men are walking some of Oakland's bloodiest streets spreading a message of hope because, they said, stopping the killing is too important a ...
It calls attention to African American “firsts,” including the first black lawmaker (Matthias de Souza, elected to the colonial Maryland legislature in 1641), the first female African American ...
FORSYTH COUNTY — An African-American cemetery in Forsyth County is being restored after it was abandoned over a century ago. The Colored Methodist Church of Cumming once stood in the woods along ...
The African American Burial Grounds Network Act is one piece of legislation to help volunteers and historians uncover the history in Black cemeteries.
Historic Charleston Foundation's new Saving Grace initiative helps African American congregations maintain their historic churches downtown; others should help ...
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - Saturday, dozens of volunteers worked to finish clearing out a once-forgotten African American cemetery in Charleston. “This is a beautiful work, and there’s a spirit here of ...
Miller said, in the course of conversations with leaders at the African American Museum of Iowa, Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church, and Bethel AME Church, “We discovered that there are a ...