Black smoke means the election of a new pope was inconclusive. White smoke means a new pope has been selected.

Yet the independence of black churches was curbed by law and by the white Southern response to slave ... spurred in part by the brutal murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till in Mississippi.

For Griffin and hundreds of others, this trip concludes at one of three century-old churches clustered around a two-block portion of East 10th Street: the historically Black Metropolitan African ...

Yet the independence of black churches was curbed by law and by the white Southern response to slave ... spurred in part by the brutal murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till in Mississippi.