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In 1940, Germany invaded Norway and Denmark. Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels blamed Britain for the invasion, accusing the Allies of planning action through the territories. In 1947, a ...
April 9 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1413, Henry V was crowned king of England. In 1816, the first all-Black U.S. religious denomination, the AME church, was organized in Philadelphia.
In 1816, Allen and representatives from other black Methodist churches formally broke from the Methodist Church and established a new denomination, the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
Some of the Good Friday services included emotional portrayals, like the Living Stations of the Cross, which was put on by ...
The First African Methodist Episcopal Church on Hull Street in Athens is one of the churches earmarked to receive a grant, which is provided through the organization's African American Cultural ...
Lomax AME Zion Church, located in Arlington, traces its history back to 1866, a year after the Civil War ended. Brenda Cox, the church historian, has been a member of the church since she was 3 ...
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 American ...
It took around 100 firefighters to battle a fire that burst out at a historic church in Philadelphia's Kensington neighborhood early Friday morning. Firefighters were first called to the burning ...
A massive fire ripped through a church in Philadelphia's Kensington section early Friday morning. The fire started at the church on the 2000 block of East Allegheny Avenue just before 1 a.m ...