In the US, four historically Black churches awarded grants to preserve work of pioneering architects
United StatesRNS The African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund announced a $US3.8 million grant on Tuesday, 13th June, aimed at helping to preserve 40 historical sites related to African American history, including theatres, swimming pools and four Black churches. Founded by the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 2017, the African American Cultural Heritage Action […]
Alabama church of ‘Bloody Sunday’ on endangered places list
United StatesAP Like religious congregants all over, the people of historic Brown Chapel AME Church turned off the lights and locked the doors at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic because it wasn’t safe to gather for worship with a deadly virus circulating. For a time, the landmark church that launched a national voting rights movement in […]
Postcards: Activists seek to preserve ‘sacred’ land Japanese immigrants acquired before California’s anti-immigrant land laws
ALEJANDRA MOLINA, of Religion News Service, reports on efforts to preserve only surviving Japanese American properties that was acquired before California enacted the Alien Land Law in 1913 barring Asian immigrants from owning land…
Fund to preserve, assist Black churches in US gets $US20 million donation
Birmingham, Alabama, USAP A new effort to preserve historic Black churches in the United States has received a $US20 million donation that will go to help congregations including one that was slammed during the tornado that killed more than 20 people in Mayfield, Kentucky, last month. Lilly Endowment Inc, which supports religious, educational and charitable […]
Four historic African American churches receive preservation grant
RNS On Thursday, the National Trust for Historic Preservation in the US announced more than $US3 million in grant funding for the preservation of Black historic sites, including several churches. “African American historic places have been undervalued for decades. This part of the preservation movement is working to catch up,” said Brent Leggs, founding executive […]