Reedy Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church is often referred to as the Mother Church of Texas, a place where the ...

New York Times journalist Kevin Sack says there was a “Charleston before 2015 and a Charleston after 2015″ in a discussion ...

Opinion editor Matthew T. Hall explores the deep history of Allen University in Columbia, its African Methodist Episcopal Church roots and its commitment to honoring nine victims of the 2015 ...

With Trump officials pushing to end diversity efforts, civil rights leaders and experts explain why Black organizations were ...

Nine months after the close of Expo ’74, federal officials formally transferred the iconic U.S. Pavilion to the city of Spokane in a brief ceremony.

The Rev. Eric Manning, Mother Emanuel's senior pastor, promoted unity before ending the service by reading each of the ...

New Jersey was the last Northern state to abolish slavery, but Black settlements helped the enslaved find freedom long before ...

Ten years after the Charleston church shooting, community leaders call for tougher gun laws to prevent similar tragedies.

It's the oldest African Methodist Episcopal Church in the South, one of the oldest Black congregations ... several instances of all of these other struggles that we have because of the color of our ...

An exterior view of the Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, South Carolina, the church is the oldest African Methodist ...