Reginald Jackson, who presided over about 500 Georgia congregations in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, died Tuesday at 71.

Bishop Reginald Jackson, a respected leader of the AME Church, has passed away at 71. He was a champion for social justice and empowerment.

Influential up and down the Eastern Seaboard, he was part of a long tradition among Black clergy of fighting bias and getting ...

He fought to end racial profiling by police and to boost funding for urban schools as pastor of the St. Matthew AME Church in Orange and president of the Black Ministers Council of New Jersey.

Durrell Cooper, chairman of the Apache Tribe of Oklahoma, places a Pendleton prayer blanket around African Methodist Episcopal Bishop Silvester Scott Beaman, at Beaman's investiture ceremony as ...

NORTH CHARLESTON — The international African Methodist Episcopal Church will meet to install Bishop Paul J.M. Kawimbe as president of the Global Council of Bishops at 7 p.m. Monday, Dec. 8, at the ...

Dr. Cook is a member of Bethel AME Church in Ann Arbor, Michigan. We, the Council of Bishops of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, stand with Dr. Lisa DeNell Cook, a member of Bethel AME Church, ...

We, the Board of Bishops of The A.M.E. Zion Church, acknowledge with great sorrow the passing of our colleague and former Senior Bishop, Bishop George Edward Battle Jr., who passed away on yesterday, ...

The African Methodist Episcopal Church, the United States’ oldest historically Black denomination, launched its General Conference on Tuesday with delegates expected to address racial issues such as ...

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A special ceremony that paid homage to Oklahoma's indigenous culture and victims of the "Mother Emanuel" church shootings drew more than 800 people to Oklahoma City, as members of the nation's oldest ...