click image for close-up The most widely recognized image of the Reverend Absalom Jones, completed sometime prior to the winter of 1810, displays a dignity rarely allowed African subjects in 19th ...

In the Episcopal Diocese of New York, the annual Absalom Jones celebration includes worshippers and cultures of all ethnicities from throughout the diocese; in recognition of current Episcopal Church ...

When Richard Allen was 17 and the slave of a Delaware planter, he experienced a religious conversion that changed his life forever. For Allen, spiritual liberation led to physical liberation, as his ...

DENMARK -- Presiding Bishop Michael Curry invites Episcopalians to financially support the annual Feast of Absalom Jones, who was the first African-American Ordained Episcopal priest of the late ...

There will be a special choral prayer service at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church at 6 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 16, commemorating the Rev. Absalom Jones, who was born into slavery and became the first African ...

The Christian Education Department of Young's Memorial AME Zion Church will have its annual Black History Service beginning at 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 26. The guest speaker will be Robert Booker. The ...

This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with the Image of the Black Archive & Library at Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African and African American ...

Grace Episcopal Church on Sunday commemorated the lives of two African Americans whose contributions shaped both the Episcopal Church in general and Grace Episcopal specifically. Sunday's special ...

St. Philip’s Episcopal Church in Laurel is accepting applications for two scholarships honoring Absalom Jones, the first African American priest in the Episcopal Church. The scholarships will be ...

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