Six months after a stolen car crashed into St. John African Methodist Church for the second time in just half a year, the ...

Mother Emanuel AME church made an ecumenical gesture for the commemoration of a racist shooting that killed nine of its Black members 10 years ago on Tuesday ...

As the clock nears midnight on New Year’s Eve, many African American churches and households across the country gather not to ...

In newly formed Black congregations, the famous abolitionist and others were able to live out their faith—and affirm their ...

The church had two white pastors, the first of whom was Levi Horner, who — in a small, framed photograph at the church — appears serious and unsmiling, wearing a stovepipe hat.

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — A ceremonial groundbreaking will be held Thursday for the rebuilding of one of the nation’s oldest ...

The First Baptist Church of Williamsburg established itself in 1776, although parishioners met before then in fields and under trees in defiance of laws that prevented African Americans from ...

Believing no man should own another, in 1775 he built a Baptist church where Black and white, slave and free, could all worship together.” ...

A white church with green trim has sat on the corner of 10th Street and Grady Avenue in Charlottesville since 1939. In the 84 years that have passed since it ...

On that horrible night in 2015, nine Black church members were gunned down by a white man who hated them just for the color of their skin. He sat with them through their Bible study, then as they ...