On Sept. 15, a bright Saturday morning in Alexandria, Va., a crowd estimated at five dozen or more parishioners and supporters of Alfred Street Baptist Church attended a rally organized by the church, ...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (7News) — A local Virginia church is ending its contract with The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts due to the center's new leadership. Alfred Street Baptist Church, the ...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (WDVM) — Behind the doors of Alfred Street Baptist Church in Alexandria, Virginia, members have been attending to worship since 1803. According to Deacon Alton Wallace, it was the only ...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (RNS) At Alfred Street Baptist Church, the pews start to fill more than half an hour before the service begins. White-uniformed ushers guide African-Americans of all ages to their ...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — President Barack Obama and the first family attended Easter service at a historic black church that traces its origins to when Thomas Jefferson was president. The Rev.

Alfred Street Baptist Church, one of the oldest faith communities in Alexandria, just passed the first major hurdle for ongoing plans for an expansion. Despite a mixed reaction in the public comment, ...

The historic Black Baptist church ensured the first and only Black student government at any American university could ...

FILE: The historic Alfred Street Baptist Church in Alexandria, Va. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)(AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta) WASHINGTON — A historic Alexandria, Virginia, church had a scare Saturday ...

President Obama and his family attended Easter church services Sunday at the Alfred Street Baptist Church in nearby Alexandria, Va. "How fitting that on the day we celebrate the rising of our Lord and ...