SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) - Lieutenant Governor Billy Nungesser and the Louisiana Office of Tourism unveiled the third marker on the Louisiana Civil Rights Trail on Friday, May 7 at 9 a.m. The marker was ...

For decades, the people of Union Baptist Church – a church founded in 1831 by 14 African American Cincinnatians looking for their own religious home – have been struggling to deal with ...

Union Baptist Church in Silsbee is getting a much needed new home with the aid of Volunteer Christian Builders, a national non-profit organization whose ministry is simply to “build for Christ.” ...

The newly finished Greater Union Baptist Church during the Rededication Celebration of on Sunday, February 2, 2025 in Opelousas, La.. The church was burned down by arsonist Holden Matthews in 2019.

In March of 2019, tragedy struck the Greater Union Baptist Church when a devastating fire engulfed the building. Fortunately, no one was inside at the time.

The church, which was set ablaze in 2019 by Holden Matthews, a man who also targeted two other predominantly Black churches in St. Landry Parish, is now rebuilt, stronger than ever.

In April 2019, Holden Matthews admitted he set fire to three historical African American churches, one being Greater Union Baptist. More than a year later, parishioner Sheryl Richard says it’s ...

Little Union Baptist Church is one of those sites. It played a role in Black history in Shreveport. In the 1960s many African Americans gathered in the church to have meetings about civil rights.

Pastor and community activist Rev. Alvin C. Hathaway will be stepping down as leader of West Baltimore’s Union Baptist Church in August, closing out 14 years of service to the historic institution.