Pope Francis has advanced the sainthood cause of Mother Mary Elizabeth Lange, a Black religious sister who founded the country’s first African American ... from servant of God to venerable ...

A member of Florida’s African American History Task Force claims the ... comments made during a sermon back in 2008. “I thank God for slavery. I thank God for the crack house.

Subscribe to The St. Louis American‘s free weekly newsletter ... How does one put on the full armor of God during the ongoing pandemic, the continuation of overt racism, state-sanctioned ...

And American history won't be complete without them. Richardson and her small staff in Chicago have created the country's largest collection of African American oral histories. There are more than ...

Black churches across the country are becoming members of the National Museum of African American History and Culture ... Clarke of the First Church of God in Columbus, Ohio.

Stella co-founded the Church of God Pentecostal in Kalamazoo along with Lafayette. It was one of the first African American churches in Kalamazoo. Their family was completed when their last two ...

Among the history revisited for Black History Month, Catholics would do well to recall that there are currently six African American Catholics ... Church in response to God’s invitation to ...

Zeita Merchant, commander of The Port of New York-- who will attain the rank of rear admiral in April to become the highest-ranking African American ... we say thank God you’re here, and we ...

AFRICAN AMERICANS. Cleveland's African American community is almost as old as the city itself. GEORGE PEAKE, the first Black settler, arrived in 1809 and by 1860 there were 799 Black people living in ...

Earlier this month, Lloyd Austin, the nation's first African American secretary of defense ... He says he is now cancer-free. "I thank God for that," he said. His knees have seen a few too ...

As he does one day each month, the Rev. Robert Turner hit the road from his home in Baltimore last week and traveled — on foot — 43 miles to Washington. He arrived by evening on April 16 ...