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Look past the Spanish fort, ornate Moorish buildings and main plaza to discover Black history in St. Augustine, Florida. More ...
Elsewhere, Vignanello is famous for its DOC wines, products made within a specific geographical area in Italy. Favourites ...
The key event in Tuscaloosa's civil rights history occurred June 9, 1964 when peaceful protesters were tear-gassed and beaten ...
There, Anita Gill-Anderson retold the site’s history via an original poem, and two members of Heritage Baptist Church sang “Amazing Grace” and the Black National Anthem, “Lift Every Voice ...
Pope Leo XIV has appealed to world leaders to pursue peace, not war, in his first Sunday address to crowds in St Peter’s Square, Vatican City. The new pope, formally Cardinal Robert Prevost, called ...
NEW ORLEANS — The new pope’s French-sounding last name, Prevost, intrigued Jari Honora, a New Orleans genealogist, who began digging in the archives and discovered the pope had deep roots in ...
The former Cardinal Robert Prevost's maternal grandparents — identified as “mulatto” and “Black” in ... as gifts to the church.” Shannen Dee Williams, a history professor at the ...
The US-born missionary and senior Vatican official has become the first American to lead the Roman Catholic Church in its 2000-year history. Follow our live updates.
Thousands of people have been gathering in St Peter’s Square to witness the time-honoured tradition which signified that no candidate had garnered the two-thirds majority needed to become the new pope ...
ST. LOUIS — This Black History Month, history is being made at the St. Alphonsus Liguori "Rock" Catholic Church. The "Rock" church received a $500,000 grant for preservation. The grant comes ...
While Black History Month may be nearing an end ... The theatre was renovated in 2009 and is still in operation. St. Paul A.M.E. Church was Columbus' first Black church when it was established ...
SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - As part of Black History Month, we’re highlighting a church in Savannah with historic ties to the Underground Railroad and Civil Rights Movement. The First African Baptist ...