He also thanked his grandfather’s church, Maranatha Baptist Church, where the former president taught Sunday school for 50 years. “This brings it home in such a real way,” Jason said.

Gone also are the spaces that brought residents of the small town of 42,000 together regularly, like Altadena Community Church and Altadena Baptist Church, which once stood two blocks from ...

NBCUSA members and guests filled the 2,000-seat sanctuary of the historic Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, for a three-hour service Monday (Jan. 13). Some 500 people planned to ...