We're looking at the history of watch night, a New Year's Eve tradition for Black Americans that goes back to the Civil War.

The watch service continues a tradition that traces its roots to the night the Emancipation Proclamation was scheduled to ...

Watch Night, also known as Freedom’s Eve, is a sacred New Year’s Eve tradition in Black communities rooted in Christian worship and remembrance of Dec. 31, 1862, when enslaved and free African ...

The tradition of Watch Night services in the United States dates back to Dec. 31, 1862, when many Black Americans gathered in churches and other venues, waiting for President Abraham Lincoln to sign ...

GREENVILLE, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - How do you plan to ring in the New Year’s? Will you be at a party? Your favorite nightclub? Or at home watching the ball drop? Some in our area will be in church. FOX ...

ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) — An Albany congregation plans to welcome the New Year by hosting a Watch Night Service—and you’re invited ...

Rather than watching the televised Times Square ball drop as the new year approaches, members of First Pentecostal Church ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - On the winter solstice, the longest night of the year, Trinity United Methodist Church held a ...