The night of Dec. 31, 1862 was perhaps the most renowned Watch Night service, when slaves not only witnessed the dawning of a new day but of a new era.

Slaves went to church to pray and sing on Dec. 31, 1862, and that’s why there are still New Year’s Eve prayer services at African-American churches nationwide.

PHILADELPHIA – In the 1950s, when the bells of the historic First African Baptist Church rang 96 feet above this corner in South Philadelphia, the neighborhood was filled with prosperous African ...

Why slaves adopted their oppressor’s religion—and transformed it. Peter Randolph, a slave in Prince George County, Virginia, until he was freed in 1847, described the secret prayer meetings he ...

A woman's ancestral search led to a former slave's prayer answered. When Houston natives Kelley Dixon Tealer and her mother Alva Marie Jenkins embarked on the journey to discover their ancestral ...

It's really there because of all the Muslim slaves from West Africa who were taken by force to the United States for three centuries, from the 1600s to the mid-1800s.

As at least 10 percent of West African slaves in America were Muslims, it’s not out of bounds to extrapolate that ground zero itself was built on the bones of at least a few Muslim slaves. That ...

Washington Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory leads a prayer service Feb. 25, 2023, for enslaved people believed to be buried in the cemetery at Sacred Heart Parish in Bowie, Md.