By Jervis Anderson June 21, 1981 The story of a refuge. This is the first part of a four-part article. Read the second part. The Journey Uptown In one of the early months of 1914, St. James Presbyterian, a black church then occupying premises on West Fift ...
Losing their religion: why US churches are on the decline https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/22/us-churches-closing-religion-covid-christianity As the US adjusts to an increasingly non-religious population, thousands of churches are closing each year – probably accelerated by Cov ...
In a period not so long ago, there were palaces that lined New York’s Fifth Avenue, built by America’s rich millionaires from both "old" and "new" money. Whether it was the Astors, Vanderbilts, Fricks, or Goulds, all of them modeled their residences after the great palaces of Europe, and fill ...
The U.S. government has discriminated against “countless” Black military veterans dating back decades, rejecting service-connected disability claims disproportionately compared with White applicants, and blocking access to housing and education benefits that helped fuel t ...
Legacy admissions - the practice of a college giving preferential admissions treatment to the children of its alumni - is facing intense criticism in a new report that documents the extent of the practice and also calls for legislation and other policies that would curtail or even end it. ...
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