The birth of Saint Augustine in 354 is celebrated on this date. He was a North African Saint, Philosopher, and Doctor.
He was the eldest...
The birth of Saint Augustine in 354 is celebrated on this date. He was a North African Saint, Philosopher, and Doctor.
He was the eldest...
This date from 1500, celebrates Santeria. Santeria is one of the many African syncretistic religions created in the Americas. The word...
On this date, we reference the origin of Black Peter (Zwarte Piet) om approximately 500 A.D. He is a “Black Face” character of European folklore...
The birth of Benedict the Black in 1526 is celebrated on this date. He was a black patron saint.
He was born in Messina, Italy on the...
This date in 1550 celebrates the Macumba/Candomble religion, one of many African-based faiths practiced in the Americas.
Macumba is the...
*On this date in 1579, St. Martin de Porres was born. He was a Black patron saint.
From Lima, Peru he was often called Saint Martin of...
*This date in 1581 marks the birth of Peter Claver. He was a Black patron saint.
From Verdu, Catalonia, Spain he was also known as Slave...
The Registry celebrates the Umbanda religion, which dates from 1600, on this date. This is one of several Black African faiths practiced in the...
On this date we celebrate the African American customs regarding cemeteries and funerals. One of the most direct and unaltered visual...
On this date, we mark the birth of Absalom Jones in 1746, a Black minister and abolitionist.
A house slave from Delaware, Jones taught...
This date in 1779 marks the first publication of the hymn “Amazing Grace.” John Newton a White British man was responsible for writing one of...
The birth of James Varick in 1750 is celebrated on this date. He was the first Black Methodist Episcopal Zion Bishop in America.
He was...
The birth of Harry Hosier in 1750 is celebrated on this date. He was a renowned Black preacher and an evangelist.
Born a slave in North...
On this date Lemuel Haynes was born in 1753. He was a Black minister.
A sympathetic white Evangelical family raised this abandoned...
*This dates Registry from 1758, briefly writes about the history of the Black Church in America. This institution which was the first source of...
*On this date in 1760, Richard Allen was born in Philadelphia. He was a Black religious leader, founder and first bishop of the African Methodist...
*This date, The Registry honors Ethiopian Jews. Ethiopian Jews or Beta Israel are a Black African ethnic group from northwestern Ethiopia who...
The First African Baptist Church of Savannah, GA., one of the oldest Black churches in North America, began on this date in 1777.
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*The birth of Catherine Ferguson in 1779 is celebrated on this date. She was a Black minister and advocate of childcare.
Born a slave...
*The birth of Jarena Lee in 1783 is marked on this date. She was a Black preacher and abolitionist.
From Cape May, New Jersey, she was...