Guests will experience live portrayals that detail the history, contributions and struggles of enslaved and freed people that ...
St. Augustine celebrates the 507th birthday of its founder with a public wreath-laying event and historical reenactments.
Augustus Tolton was ordained in Rome in 1886. Previously, the only Black Catholic priests in the US had been men who presented themselves as white.
Martin Luther King Jr.'s activism in St. Augustine, Florida, was crucial to passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Local protests, known as the St. Augustine Movement, escalated after four Black ...
Patricia Barr Gundlach, 89, of Belleville, IL, born August 28, 1936, in West Frankfort, IL, died Tuesday, January 6, 2026, at her daughter’s residence with family by her side. Mrs. Gundlach graduated ...