Here is The News & Observer’s ongoing coverage of efforts to preserve buildings and sites to share the history of Black people in North Carolina. Myrtle Mayo remembers when Dickerson Chapel held ...

Down a narrow dirt lane off Walnut Street in Whitesville, a small white church sits quietly above a pasture, guarded by trees ...

Since the Civil War era, St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church has stood proudly at the junction between Chapel Hill and Carrboro. The church has watched the towns around it grow and change. It ...

(AP) – In the Black Church as a whole, male pastors predominate, though there’s no comprehensive gender breakdown. No woman had ever preached the keynote sermon at the Joint National Baptist ...