The woman accused of shooting and killing a Memphis pastor earlier this year faced a judge on Tuesday morning. Samantha ...

EMPHIS, Tenn. — It calls itself “the blackest church in Memphis” and soon Abyssinian Missionary Baptist Church will celebrate its 20th anniversary. Big events are planned beginning Friday, Nov. 14 ...

More than a hundred people filled a stretch of West 138th Street in Harlem Sunday for a block party to celebrate the opening of Abyssinian Baptist Church’s new Dr. Calvin O. Butts III Educational and ...

During COVID, Green Acres Baptist Church pastor David Dykes gives his Easter message to an empty 3,000 seat sanctuary as the church records the Easter Sunday service for TV and online on April 11, ...

After the prayer and praise comes the pomp and pageantry. We wanted to capture the beauty of it, and so this Easter we headed to Harlem’s historical Abyssinian Baptist Church to behold Easter fashion ...

A “freeze the rent” rally featuring two lefty mayoral candidates was scheduled to take place Thursday night at Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem. That was, until plans changed the day before, ...

Beyond the Easter egg hunts, the baskets stuffed with shredded tissue paper, and the sugar highs from too much candy, church is at the heart of many early-morning Easter rituals. While I can’t recall ...

A federal judge has dismissed a gender discrimination lawsuit brought against Abyssinian Baptist Church by a onetime candidate to be the historic Harlem church’s senior pastor, the sole female ...

Stevie Wonder and Rev. Al Sharpton were among the speakers and performers Monday at Grammy-winning soul singer Roberta Flack’s public memorial service in Manhattan. Flack, who died last month at the ...

*As we reported earlier, Roberta Flack, the beloved Grammy-winning singer celebrated for her soulful hits like “Killing Me Softly With His Song” and “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,” passed away ...

The memorial service for Grammy-winning R&B legend Roberta Flack will be held Monday at 4 p.m. The event will take place at Abyssinian Baptist Church and will be live streamed on her website, here.

The AFRO knows what it’s like to endure challenging times. John H. Murphy, Sr., a former enslaved man founded the AFRO in 1892 with $200 from his wife, Martha Howard Murphy. Together they created a ...