2 sites in Durham’s Hayti neighborhood join National Register of Historic Places
If we don’t work to preserve these treasures, they’re not guaranteed to stay with us,” said Angela Lee, the director of the ...
Smithsonian Magazine1d
The Nation’s First Black Female Doctor Blazed a Path for Women in Medicine. But She Was Left Out of the Story for Decades
After earning a medical degree in 1864, Rebecca Lee Crumpler died in obscurity and was buried without a headstone ...
Black Civil War soldiers to be honored with 7-foot bronze monument
Seventy Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War will be memorialized in a monument planned for Rocky Mount ...
America Magazine5d
Vatican statistics: Baptisms down, but first Communions and confirmations up
At the end of 2023, the number of Catholics in the world reached 1.405 billion, up 1.15% from 1.389 billion Catholics at the end of 2022, according to the Vatican’s Central Office of Church Statistics ...
Alexandria Times5d
‘Break Water’ honors Black history at Waterfront Park
A new public art installation unveiled Saturday at Alexandria’s Waterfront Park spotlights the story of a Civil War-era ...