Category : Religion

First Baptist Church, Capitol Hill lays claim to the designation as the oldest continuously operating African American church in Tennessee because it traces its origin...

Mary Magdalena Lewis Tate founded a Pentecostal denomination and became one of the first American women to hold the title of bishop. Born in Vanleer,...

Minister, civil rights activist, vocalist, Jesse Lee Douglas, Sr. was born August 19, 1930, in New Orleans, Louisiana, to William and Isabella Douglas, a Merchant...

Vodou, also spelled Voodoo, Voudou, Vodun, or French Vaudou, a religion practiced in Haiti. Vodou is a creolized religion forged by descendants of Dahomean, Kongo,...

Spruce Street Baptist Church is one of the oldest black churches in Nashville, Tennessee. It is also one of three churches to evolve out of...

Marie Laveau, also known as Laveaux, was a prominent figure in the Vodou community of New Orleans. Born in 1801 (though some sources suggest 1794),...

Lacey Kirk Williams was the President of the National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., Inc., from 1922 to 1940 and Vice President of the World Baptist Alliance...

Sister Eliza Healy was both an educator and noted first African American Mother Superior of a Catholic convent. Healy was born on a plantation near...

Robert Thomas Hickman, born enslaved in Missouri in 1831, is most noted for the group of slaves including his wife and young son, whom he...