Martin Luther King Celebration will return for an 18th year next Monday. The Martin Luther King Celebration hosted by the African American Heritage Center is scheduled for Monday, Jan. 20. The event, ...
2, 2014, during an open house at the church. The Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture is dedicated to discovering, documenting, preserving, collecting and promoting Maryland ...
There is not a single African American Catholic canonized as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church. This omission persists even as Black Catholics have remained faithful despite the church's ...
Frederick County — $36,000 Quinn Chapel AME Church, City of Frederick, Frederick County — $250,000 Catoctin Furnace African American Cemetery, Thurmont, Frederick County — $150,000 St. Mark’s ...
“Kwanzaa thus came into being, grounded itself and grew as an act of freedom, an instrument of freedom, a celebration of freedom and a practice of freedom.” Karenga, an African American ...
Kwanzaa is an annual celebration of African-American culture from Dec. 26 to Jan. 1. Witherspoon Presbyterian Church plans to celebrate Kwanzaa’s Day 4, which is called Ujamaa, from 10 a.m.-4 p ...
(WTRF) — Thursday marks the kickoff to Kwanzaa. The annual celebration of African American heritage was started in 1966 as an alternative to Christmas, but that stance was softened in the 90s.
“What Kwanzaa means to me is a celebration for all people,” said Gregory Buckner, president of the African American Cultural Events Committee. “It’s not just for African Americans – it ...