The emancipation took place on June 19, 1865, two-and-a-half years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation ...

"Eldorado Ballroom Houston," a multi-disciplinary series honoring contemporary and historic Black artists, kicked off this ...

Located at 6202 St. Clair Ave., Saint Martin de Porres offers a rigorous college prep education. As part of its mission of “preparing students of limited economic means to become men and women of ...

Allen "Jocko" Hughes' late wife Sunbeam Hughes was the Saint Martin de Porres High School principal. And his children also have been successful. But by helping people, Hughes has been a winner, too.

UPDATE (5/17, 8:08 p.m.) — Community members gathered for the 75th anniversary of the establishment of St. Martin De Porres Hospital in Mobile. “It’s a homegoing,” Executive Direc… ...

ST. MARTIN DE PORRES HIGH SCHOOL, 6202 St. Clair Ave., opened with 105 students in 2004 in the former St. Vitus Elementary School. The high school is named for the patron saint of mixed-race and ...

Originally called St. Martin de Tours, it was renamed St. Martin de Porres to honor a Catholic saint with African ancestry when the parish membership was largely Black.

Feb. 23: "All God’s Children" concert at St. Martin de Porres Catholic Church with Dr. Antoine T. Clark, the Toledo Symphony Orchestra, and the Bowling Green State University Gospel Choir at 5pm ET.

Upon his acceptance to St. Francis in 1945, Ward took on the religious name of Martin Maria de Porres as his own. After his ordination in 1955 in Albany, New York, he volunteered to work at ...

The Conventual Franciscans saw no problem with his being Black, and so he entered in late 1945, taking the religious name of Martin Maria de Porres to honor both the saint from South America and ...

Agormanya (E/R), Aug 26, GNA – Saint Martin’s de Porres Catholic Hospital in Agormanya, Eastern Region, has unveiled a new, state-of-the-art computed tomography (CT) scan to enhance healthcare ...