A symbol of continental unity since 1961, Africa Hall in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa has undergone a sweeping ...
At 88, historian David Levering Lewis, a biographer of W.E.B. DuBois, has filled in gaps in his knowledge of his own family line, and he takes readers along on the journey.
A stained-glass window, donated in 1877 to a church ... Colonization Society that supported the passage of free Africans to Africa. Carr’s commission dates to the same year of the U.S. Congress ...
Glide Memorial is one of 30 historic Black churches awarded a grant from The National Trust for Historic Preservation’s ...
The parish, which is under the care of the Redemptorists and located in the Grand Center district of St. Louis, will receive $500,000 to help restore its stained-glass windows, which were created in ...
For Black History Month, one local artist paid tribute through her intricate works of stained glass. The Black History ... because we want Americans, African Americans, other Americans to come ...
“The Stained Glass Window” is at once narrative history ... It was part of a series of windows portraying the emancipation and struggles of African-Americans in the New World.
Historian and author David Levering Lewis chronicles his ancestor’s struggles during slavery and Reconstruction, and their ...
Protective measures also included a strengthened frame for the crown jewel of Africa Hall: the two-story stained-glass window that has adorned the foyer since 1961. Titled “The Total Liberation ...
His preaching and an African American style of worship and ... a 2007 fire in the church’s roof — which did not damage the stained glass — necessitated two years of celebration of Sunday ...