INTERDENOMINATIONAL DIPLOMACY: There’s a history of high demand for Olympic chaplains. The behind-the-scenes dealmaking to accommodate different religions, as well as different cultural, national and …
Atlanta, Ga. – To mark the 50th anniversary of the tragic shooting that claimed the lives of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s mother as …
Calverton, Md. (AP) – The Rev. Matthew L. Watley says it’s not happenstance his suburban Maryland congregation, part of the historically Black African Methodist Episcopal …
AMERICANS ON THEIR WAY: Members of the 2001 delegation outside the lobby of their hotel in Medina, and during a bus break on the road …
SOJOURNER TRUTH LEGACY PLAZA: “It’s going to remind others to be the first one to speak up, to speak up for all, not just for …
GRAND MOSQUE OF DJENNÉ: The world’s largest mud-brick building used to draw tens of thousands of tourists to central Mali every year. Internal strife now …
PUSHING FOR FREEDOM: Such as easing the process to build houses of worship. PHOTO COURTESY OF GOLDENSCISSORS.INFO Havana (AP) – The 1959 Castroled revolution installed …
VODOU PRIESTS: Born in West Africa and brought across the Atlantic by enslaved people, Vodou was at the root of the revolution that led Haiti …
ALSO AMONG BEST OF BEST: History prize winner Jacqueline Jones ("No Right to an Honest Living”) wondered how Black people were treated in Boston at …
PHOTO COURTESY OF LERUE SARVIS, JR. LAUDERHILL, Fla. – City of Lauderhill officials including Commissioner Melissa P. Dunn, at the podium, Vice Mayor Lawrence “Jabbow” …
