Category: Africans

March 31, 1647 1st Africans were baptized in NYC

by Journey | Mar 31, 2024 | Africans, Retro Flashes | 0 |

1639 Manatus Map showing the location of Blacks that worked for the Dutch West India Company and...

1 Yr Ago: OpEd Appeal from Church in Kyiv, Ukraine

by Tony Carnes | Feb 24, 2023 | Africans, Journey Everywhere, Ukrainians | 0 |

SEE UPDATE AT THE END One of the leading supporters of the democratic movement in Ukraine was and...

May 5, 1641 1st African wedding in New Amsterdam

by Journey | May 5, 2022 | Africans, Retro Flashes | 0 |

Many of the early Black residents in New Amsterdam came from the Kingdom of the Kongo. It was a...

March 31, 1647 1st Africans were baptized in NYC

by Journey | Mar 31, 2022 | Africans, Retro Flashes | 0 |

1639 Manatus Map showing the location of Blacks that worked for the Dutch West India Company and...

OpEd Appeal from Church in Kiev, Ukraine

by Sunday Adelaja | Feb 24, 2022 | Africans, Journey Everywhere, Ukrainians | 0 |

One of the leading supporters of the democratic movement in Ukraine was and is Pastor Sunday...

Harlem and the Dutch debate over slavery in New Amsterdam

by Tony Carnes | Jan 17, 2021 | African American, Africans, Harlem, Harlem Retrospectives, Race & faith | 17 |

The anti-slavery theologians often referred to slavery as “theft of humans” and a violation of the eighth of the Ten Commandments. But the slavocrats gained more elite supporters than did the theologians of freedom.

Heaven is in Bushwick, Brooklyn

by Pauline Dolle | Feb 5, 2020 | Africans, Bushwick, Evangelical Protestants, HINGE | 1 |

Worship so buoyant that every hip and knee in the sanctuary is swaying as though floating on a cloud

A Christian wiseman among the Muslims of New York City

by Tony Carnes | May 15, 2019 | Africans, Books, Evangelical Protestants, Highbridge, Muslims | 0 |

Proverbs and dreams play a big role in city life.

Video: Kitchens of Faith for Easter in The Bronx: German Caraway Eggs & African Tartale

by Debbie Yeung | Apr 20, 2019 | Africans, Bronx, Food, Germans, Kitchens of Faith | 25 |

Reporter Debbie Yeung explores what New Yorkers in the Bronx are cooking for Easter: German Caraway Eggs at St. Thomas Lutheran Church ; and African Tartale at Vineyard Christian Center.

Peter Stuyvesant’s relentless quest for order in New Amsterdam pushes Africans out of the church

by Tony Carnes | Jan 6, 2017 | African American, Africans, Harlem, Harlem Retrospectives | 4 |

The slavocrats won and the baptism of slaves ceased. For the first time, commercial values in Manhattan trumped faith and moral values.

African American faith and freedom in pre-colonial Harlem

by Tony Carnes | Jan 2, 2017 | African American, Africans, Harlem, Harlem Retrospectives | 5 |

At the very beginning of Harlem’s life Africans were creating an African American identity rooted in faith and freedom.

“Here! Horrible! Me!” A Video African Prayer in the South Bronx

by Tony Carnes | Aug 31, 2016 | African American, Africans, Bronx, Malians, Music | 1 |

Mousama’s simple but powerful prayer translated from Wusulu (a language spoken in the country of Mali and elsewhere).

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