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Preserving Black churches
February 7, 2024
Several Black churches and cultural sites will have their history preserved thanks to a collective $4 million in grants.
August 23, 2023
The March on Washington of 1963 is remembered most for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s “I Have a Dream” speech —…
January 10, 2023
Rev. James Meeks delivered his last sermon on Sunday at the Salem Baptist Church, a Black megachurch on the South…
September 27, 2022
African Americans who attend church and engage in private prayer have better heart health than less religious Black people, study…
Brown's Chapel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church of Hastings
August 31, 2022
A nonprofit group is working on a new art installation that will recognize a Black church that was destroyed by…
July 15, 2022
Each suspect faces over 100 charges of aggravated harassment for dispensing the pamphlets at various sites in Hornell, New York.
January 17, 2022
A $20M dollar donation made to a fund to help Black churches should ensure that more of them survive into…
American Conservative Union Holds Annual Conference In Florida
August 23, 2021
Enrique Tarrio will serve a 155-day jail sentence for burning a Black Lives Matter sign stolen from a Black church…
August 15, 2021
King was 26 when the Montgomery Improvement Association met at Mt. Zion AME Church on Dec. 5, 1955, the first…
January 26, 2021
Erica Campbell took to Instagram to urge clergymen to think twice before clicking 'like' on photos of hotties in sexy…
Church Fires
April 17, 2019
[griojw id=”hMr89Sju” playerid=”GqX43ZoG”]   The fire that engulfed the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris and the resulting contributions for rebuilding
July 8, 2015
theGrio REPORT - A trifecta of Muslim organizations has come together to raise money to rebuild worship centers in Florida,…
July 5, 2015
If you’re a black person living and working in North America, there’s a good chance that you’re not only very
July 3, 2015
GREELEYVILLE, South Carolina (AP) — As social media buzzed about church fires in the South, investigators announced Thursday that weather…
July 1, 2015
The recent rash of black church burnings have many African-Americans wondering if this marks a resurgence of the nation’s original terrorists — white
July 1, 2015
GREELEYVILLE, S.C. (AP) — A fire that destroyed a black church that 20 years ago was a target of the
June 29, 2015
theGRIO REPORT - Six different black churches have burned down within the last seven days, and at least three of…
June 19, 2015
OPINION - Wednesday night's massacre at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston conjures up painful memories of the 1963 bombing…
December 14, 2014
NEW YORK (AP) — Congregants in African-American churches across the country wore black to Sunday services and prayed over the
September 11, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - For years, there has been an unspoken but deeply prevalent “don’t ask, don’t” tell policy in the…