Brooklyn’s Black church choirs persist vs. attendance decline
FREE BLACK COMMUNITY: A nearby neighborhood known as Weeksville, now considered part of central Brooklyn, was the second-largest in the United States before the Civil …
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Gullah Geechee elders work to preserve sacred songs
St. Helena Island, S.C. (AP) — Minnie "Gracie" Gadson claps her hands and stomps her feet against the floorboards, lifting her voice in a song …
A Gaza family dedicates each day to enough food to survive
SOMETIMES LENTILS. SOMETIMES NOTHING: "If the war goes on, I am thinking of taking my life. I no longer have any strength or power." PHOTO …
Leaders increase security after vandalism reports at Texas, California mosques
REBUILDING TRUST: In Texas, a gathering at Nueces brought together neighbors and others, including Christians and Jews, to paint over the vandalism, clean up the …
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity hosts Florida Youth Summit
GROUP ACTIVITY: FYILS participants engaging in mediated team building. PHOTOS COURTESY OF ALPHA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY, INC. Orlando – The Florida Federation of Alpha Chapters, …
IRS’ surprise move on political endorsements leaves faith leaders, legal experts divided
PRAISES TO THE IRS? White evangelicals and Black Protestants were a little more divided on the matter, with about one-third in each group favoring political …
Holy Grail of abolitionist-era Baptist docs found in archive
"A RESOLUTION AND PROTEST AGAINST SLAVERY": The Rev. Kenneth Young – whose predominantly Black Calvary Baptist Church in Haverhill, Mass., was created by freed Blacks …
Meet the men who became Catholic priests in Virginia
REV. RICKY MALEBRANCHE: The son of Haitian immigrants joins a small group of Black American priests who are less than 1% of U.S. priests. Black …
South Dade Alphas, 2nd Baptist, Edge partner for men’s health
IOTA PI LAMBDA CHAPTER: Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity members celebrated fathers while featuring specialist José Raúl López de Victoria Martínez, center, at Second Baptist Church …
Islamic New Year begins in lunar, Hijri calendar of Muslims
Islam’s lunar or Hijri New Year is expected to beginning around Thursday with the first day of the month of Muhar ram. STOCK PHOTO Muslims …