Stained glass, steeples and financial sustainability

Stained glass, steeples and financial sustainability

By Cynthia R. Greenlee

An effort to preserve Black churches is entering its next cycle under the direction of the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund.

Strategy questions

• If you were asked what in your church is worth preserving, what would you say?
• Would your community benefit from learning more about your congregation’s past and its role in local history?

A Caribbean immigrant’s Thanksgiving meal begins with squash soup — a comfort food for past, present and future

By Andrew J. Skerritt

The writer’s grandmother cooked hearty, meaty soup every week in Montserrat. Now a lighter, quicker version graces his table in the U.S.

 

The 1898 racist massacre and coup still reverberates through Wilmington, N.C.

By Reggie Shuford and Lucy McCauley

Two activists with longtime ties to the city reflect on its past and how it might move forward 125 years after a murderous insurrection led by white supremacists.