Washington’s Black Lives Matter Plaza stood as a place to mourn, celebrate, argue and ultimately renew the nation’s ...

Investigators in Tennessee say a fire that severely damaged a historic Black church that served as the headquarters for a ...

Using smoke to communicate to the public whether a new pope has been elected is somewhat a recent tradition for the Catholic Church ... of the smoke — white (positive) and black (negative ...

Following the death of Pope Francis, the Catholic Church’s most senior officials ... and the Poor The black and white smoke comes from a cast-iron stove inside the Sistine Chapel.

As the papal conclave continues, onlookers from around the world will watch for smoke in Vatican City, eager for the first update on who will be the next leader of the Catholic Church. On the ...

The history of the white ... Chapel is black, it means that none of the proposed candidates has reached two-thirds of the votes needed to be elected. If the smoke is white, the Church has a ...

This week, 133 cardinals have gathered in the Vatican to elect a new leader of the Catholic church ... black smoke indicates the cardinals have not yet agreed on a new leader, while white smoke ...

The Rev. James D. Peters Jr. marched with Martin Luther King Jr. across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, and later ...

Whether it is black — meaning the ... in the 2005 conclave that gave the Church Pope Benedict XVI, a second, more modern stove was also used. Historically, the white smoke was created by burning ...