SOUTH PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The postal service is celebrating Black History Month by issuing a forever stamp honoring the founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Richard Allen. During a ...
Mark Tyler, historiographer and executive director of research and scholarship of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, often wonders: What if Christians stood up in the 1780s and challenged the ...
Richard Allen, born into slavery near Smyrna, rose to found the AME Church and promote rights for African Americans. Some of his most notable achievements are illustrated in a new mural unveiled March ...
Introduction: A Black founder's many worlds -- "For Zion's sake ... I will not rest" -- Gospel labors -- The year of the fever, part 1 : a (deceptively) simple narrative of the Black people -- The ...