Richard Allen, born into slavery near Smyrna, rose to found the AME Church and promote rights for African Americans.

African Methodist Episcopal Church pastors challenging steep retirement plan losses received initial court approval for a pair of class settlements valued at $60 million.

Renovations to the Allen AME Church in Cape May are nearing completion and the historical building will soon become the ...

PALESTINE, Texas (KLTV) - For the first time in over a decade, restoration of Mount Vernon African Methodist Episcopal Church is now underway. Inside of a historic piece of African American history, ...

A construction job inside a historic African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church at the Jersey Shore led to a discovery 134 years in the making. In August 2024, Kyle Carter, a contractor, was working ...

Built in 1888, the Allen African Methodist Episcopal Church had been a focal point of the city’s Black community for more than a century. Cape May’s Black history includes leaders in the ...

CAPE MAY — A contractor working on scaffolding in the rafters of a historic Black church discovered a hand-written note from an esteemed reverend at the church in the late 19th century, the ...

Alex Cuba. Alex Cuba’s sweet melodies, pop-soul hooks and powerful guitar riffs abandon the conventional stereotype that is found in much of the Latin music landscape ...

WESTTOWN — Township supervisors voted March 3 to erect an historic marker to recognize a Black cemetery at the former site of the 1817 Shiloh African Methodist Episcopal church. At least 140 ...