Founded in 1852, when San Francisco was a main post for the gold rush and before the Civil War, Bethel AME is the oldest African American church...
Born in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1925, Frankie Jacobs Gillette was the third of three daughters and a son born to the late Natalie Taylor Jacobs and...
One of the Blackest moments witnessed that day was when Harris and former President Barack Obama greeted each other with double fist bumps.
Maxwell Claude Gillette, age 93, died Dec. 10, 2020, at Sutter Health Hospital, Van Ness Campus, where he was being treated for lung cancer. Born in...
A Night in White Extravaganza for the 95th Session of the Women’s Missionary Society (WMS) of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AMEC) was held at the...
CHICAGO CRUSADER — Leavell was given a special award by the Ida B. Wells Committee from the charity organization known as Ida’s Legacy. It was founded...
Bethel AME will celebrate 166 years of service to the San Francisco community on March 4 at 10am. Themed “Homecoming”, this will be ther first anniversary...
Saying the lord works in mysterious ways is in understatement to Rev. Robert Shaw. Just a few months ago, he was telling some congregants at Bethel...
Professor Samuel Bennett, lead organist and church musician at Bethel AME Church, was honored last Sunday with a proclamation from San Francisco City Hall for his...
Long time Hunter’s Point resident Delores Hearring celebrated her 100th birthday on July 11th. Born 1914 in Jacksonville, Alabama, Delores was raised in the rural county...
The San Francisco Chapter of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) San recently held its 35th Annual Christian Women of the Year Luncheon and Awards...