After almost six years from the time its sanctuary was destroyed by a tornado, Mt. Zion Baptist Church moved into a rebuilt ...

The organization also sought to tear down the former Serpentini Collision Center on Front Street and pay for a new Mount Zion Baptist Church building roughly a mile away. Unlike the domed stadium ...

Then Jim Crow brought a new century-long type of ... We had Lomax A.M.E. Zion Church that's next door, Macedonia Baptist Church, Mount Zion Baptist Church, and Our Lady, Queen of Peace Catholic ...

(KTAL/KMSS) — A man born into slavery in Alexandria, Louisiana became a journalist, preacher, and the editor of The Tribune in New Orleans ... a lecture at Mount Zion Baptist Church on Apr ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Gene “Daddy G” Barge ... Don’t Move the Mountain,” by Inez Andrews, and the Beautiful Zion Baptist Church’s “I’ll Make It Alright.” Barge’s Chicago connection ...

Mary Lou Phifer was born on Aug. 11, 1930, in Greenville to the late Major and Bertha Smith Albritton. She married J.C. Phifer, Sr. in August 1951. At an early age, she accepted Christ and joined Mt.

By Keith Stokes, special to What’s Up Newp. Originally published on Feb. 18, 2021 “If there was a watering-place in America where respectable, refined, and well-bearing-colored ladies and gentlemen ...

A formal celebration of Black history in this country began more than 50 years before Kent State University, in 1970, first celebrated Black History Month. The first U.S. president to recognize the ...

Group 1 sign-in is 9 a.m., and the meeting is from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. These precincts are in the first group: 03-00 Gilwood Presbyterian Church; 04-01 Mt. Olivet Methodist Church; 04-03 New Hope ...

JONESBORO, Ark. (KAIT) - A celebration with a bigger meaning as dozens participated in New Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church’s Black History Month celebration on Sunday, Feb 16. Craighead ...