On New Year’s Eve, Black churches in New Orleans and across the country will continue the tradition known as Watch Night or ...

“Black history is our history. This is our time to serve, and this is our time to be a part of our own history. Starting in ...

By keeping watch, Black communities transformed a single night of waiting into a living theology of freedom. They taught time to remember. They taught faith to speak history aloud. In a nation that ...

On the night of December 31, 1862, African Americans of all social classes gathered in secret to observe Watch Night, a religious tradition of collective reflection and anticipation of the ...

View Abraham Lincoln's signed Emancipation Proclamation at ALPLM in Springfield, featured in a special exhibit celebrating ...

On New Year’s Eve, approximately 100 people gathered at Historic First Baptist Church for a Watch Night service to recognize ...

The Emancipation Association of Montgomery held its 160th annual Emancipation Proclamation Celebration to kick off 2026.

Some friends and I were sharing about the Watch Night Services our families attended when we were children. I shared how ...