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BLACK HISTORY

Old State House event highlights the beginnings of Black churches

By Xiomara Moore
Posted 2/16/26

DOVER – Thanks to Delaware, the Free African Society and the African Methodist Episcopal Church were birthed. Although the two entities did not start in the first state, the founders were born here …

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