Black faith leaders call for Target boycott over DEI rollback
A group of Black faith leaders have announced a Lent-inspired boycott of retail giant Target over the company’s rollback of ...
RNS on MSN3d
Historic Black churches receive $8.5 million in preservation grants
(RNS) — Thirty historically Black churches and projects, including those with ties to Civil Rights leaders who led churches ...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution27d
Despite challenges, Georgia’s Black architects make their mark on Atlanta
One Sunday in May 1917, on the first day of services at the newly built First African Methodist Episcopal ... Atlanta, the Atlanta Botanical Garden, Ebenezer Baptist Church, the Rev. Martin Luther ...
Atlanta Magazine9d
A faded 20th-century advertisement, revealed after a tornado, is a reminder of Atlanta’s racist past
The advertisement is of the Gold Dust Twins, who for the first half of the 20th century served as racist branding for ...
The Grio9d
Most influential Black politicians in American history
Revels, born in North Carolina, was a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. During the Civil ... the mentorship of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and nearly lost his life ...
Atlanta Daily World14d
This Week In Black History Feb. 12-18
Congress passes the first Fugi­tive Slave Law. The law made it easier for a slave owner to re-take control of a slave who had ...