Catholic Charities Celebrates Black History Month With Art Lesson
February 12, 2025By Currents News Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens is celebrating Black History Month by teaching adults how to create their own African […]
Topic: Black History
Central Park Offers Limited Opportunity to Learn About Seneca Village, Abolitionist History in NYC
February 10, 2025By Currents News During Black History Month we are showing you an unknown part of American and New York history that is […]
Queens Church Celebrates Black History With Art Contest
January 25, 2024by Katie Vasquez Allison Attong-Rogers has always felt inspired by her parish, and loves capturing the multicultural community at St. Clare Church […]
Black Holocaust Museum Reopens and Welcomes Visitors for the First Time Since 2008
February 28, 2022Currents News Staff It’s a celebration of 14 years in the making: America’s Black Holocaust Museum in Milwaukee has finally reopened their […]
Cardinal Wilton Gregory Celebrates Black History Month Mass of Thanksgiving in Diocese of Brooklyn
February 22, 2022By Jessica Easthope and Paula Katinas America’s first black Cardinal came last weekend to the Diocese of Brooklyn — which boasts the largest […]
Black Catholic History Month Mass Honors a Group of Historic Sororities and Fraternities
November 23, 2021Currents News Staff and Paula Katinas BEDFORD-STUYVESANT — Marcel J. Desroches says his admiration for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King includes […]
Black Catholic History Month on Display at Diocese Academy
November 15, 2021By Jessica Easthope We were all made in God’s image and likeness – but the reality is that these students have to […]
‘Unspoken Voices’ Exhibit Using Art to Humanize Those Enslaved at NYC’s Dyckman Farmhouse
March 17, 2021By Emily Drooby Six names are no longer hidden from the world. Now, they’re part of an exhibit at the Dyckman Farmhouse […]
Black History Month Mass in the Brooklyn Diocese: Celebration, a Call for Unity
March 1, 2021The following is the full text from homilist Father Franklin Ezeorah, for the Feb. 28, 2021 Black History Month Mass: “I like […]
A Stop on the Underground Railroad: Take a Look Inside Brooklyn’s Plymouth Church
February 24, 2021By Emily Drooby On a quaint Brooklyn Heights street sits Plymouth Church. Hidden among the pews, are crucial pieces of Black History. […]