Category : Religion

The minister and missionary E. K. Love was a prominent Baptist leader and writer in nineteenth-century Georgia. Dedicated to fighting racism, Love was also a...

BOSTON KING,  Methodist preacher, and author; b. c. 1760 near Charleston, S.C.; d. 1802 in Sierra Leone. Boston King was born a slave on Richard Waring’s plantation...

“Amazing Grace” is probably the most beloved hymn of the last two centuries. The soaring spiritual describing profound religious elation is estimated to be performed...

Andrew Bryan, a pioneer Baptist leader, helped found First African Baptist Church in Savannah, one of the oldest black congregations in the nation. Bryan was...

Born into a preacher’s family in rural Georgia, Thomas Dorsey began playing the family organ at age six.  At eight he started writing his own...

The Knights of Peter Claver organization was founded in 1909 in Mobile, Alabama. It is the largest African American Catholic lay organization in the United...

Channing H. Tobias acquired fame through his work with the YMCA. Born in Augusta, Georgia on February 1, 1882, to Fair and Bell Robinson Tobias,...

William J. Seymour was born in Centerville, Louisiana, to former slaves Simon and Phillis Seymour, who raised him in the Baptist church. While living in...

The National Baptist Convention, USA, Incorporated (NBCUSA) is made up of approximately 7.5 million African American Baptists, making it the largest African-American organization in the...