The National Museum of Gospel Music is one step closer to becoming a reality. And it will be in Bronzeville. State Sen. Mattie Hunter helped secure $2.1 million in funding toward a $37.2 million plan ...

Some called them runaway slaves, but Robert Hickman knew the men, women and children who accompanied him out of Boone County, Mo., as his “pilgrims.” The stories of how Hickman and his followers fled ...

The National Museum of Gospel Music was supposed to open this month at the rebuilt and rehabbed Pilgrim Baptist Church. Instead, the church is in ever-worsening condition after two disasters damaged ...

When a fire in 2006 nearly demolished Pilgrim Baptist Church, an architectural treasure by Louis Sullivan that is known as the birthplace of modern gospel music, many Chicagoans insisted that the ...

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In a three-story building on South Indiana Avenue, congregants of Pilgrim Baptist say prayers, sing hymns and greet one another during services. They’ve worshiped in the nondescript location since a ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --A stalled plan to rebuild the historic Pilgrim Baptist Church is getting new life. The church, at 3301 S. Indiana Ave. in the Bronzeville neighborhood, was destroyed in an extra-alarm ...

Beaten down and desperate for freedom, escaping slaves paddled a wooden raft up the Mississippi River from Missouri. The treacherous trip in 1863 at the height of the Civil War eventually landed them ...

In an age when it's not uncommon for a preacher to move from church to church, the Rev. Horace R. Smith Sr. went against the grain. The Reverend Smith, who died Monday at age 82, was pastor of Pilgrim ...

A Springfield church reached a landmark anniversary this year and is planning for its next century. Mt. Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church, located at 1870 Clay Street, is celebrating its 100th ...

WICKSBURG, Ala. (WTVY) - Have you ever heard the phrase, “It takes a village to raise a child.” Well, it also takes a village to help a community. Pilgrim Home Baptist Church recognizes that and it ...