Ground had been broken in Virginia for the rebuilding of one of the nation’s oldest Black churches. Thursday's Juneteenth ceremony was at Colonial Williamsburg, a museum that owns the land where the ...

This image provided by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation shows the 2021 excavation of the original First Baptist Church of Williamsburg in Williamsburg, Va. (Colonial Williamsburg Foundation ...

The First Baptist Church of Williamsburg established itself in 1776, although parishioners met before then in fields and under trees in defiance of laws that prevented African Americans from ...

Ground had been broken in Virginia for the rebuilding of one of the nation’s oldest Black churches. Thursday's Juneteenth ceremony was at Colonial Williamsburg, a museum that owns the land where ...

I walked up and down Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard showing people two renderings of a proposed 25-story tower that would ...

Colonial Williamsburg's rebuilding of the church is an opportunity to tell Black history and resurrect the stories of those who originally built it.

A former volunteer youth group leader at Immanuel Baptist Church in Colonial Heights has been charged with sexually abusing a boy he met through the youth organization.

Beulah Mae Minor, 82, of Cave City died Sunday, July 6, 2025, at Colonial Center in Bowling Green. Born July 26, 1942, she ...

On Juneteenth, a groundbreaking ceremony was held in Williamsburg to rebuild the African Baptist meeting house. The church was originally founded in 1776.