WASHINGTON (AP) — There is so much history between the walls of Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church, which has hosted funerals for Rosa Parks and Frederick Douglass and opened its pews to ...

Congregations that were stations in the Underground Railroad have mixed approaches to the nation’s birthday. In the days leading up to America’s 250th anniversary, Mother Bethel African Methodist ...

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 (69 kilometers) to Washington. He arrived by evening on April ...

A major part of American history is St. Louis history. The city predates the nation by more than a decade and became part of the United States in 1804 through the Louisiana Purchase. St. Louis has ...

Cyprian Davis, O.S.B., in an undated photo. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Born Clarence John Davis in Washington, D.C., in 1930, Davis was raised in a Congregational church but became Catholic as a ...

The Black Church, despite its historic role in American public life, lacks coordinated infrastructure across theological ...

Not to mention holding back laughter while watching a neighbor hold tight to her hat as she climbed inside a car, only for that hat to inevitably fall off anyway, Among the many hats that adorned many ...