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Some historic African American sites across the nation are falling into disrepair. The African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund seeks to help.

Officials say the historical Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma made it to the top endangered places list.

The need for major repairs at a National Historic Landmark in Selma is raising concerns about the site's future.

The Alabama church that played a role in the 1965 Bloody Sunday civil-rights march tops this year's list of the nation's most endangered historic places, according to the Washington, D.C.,-based National Trust for Historic Preservation, a nonprofit organization which works to highlight and preserve sites that are in danger of being lost.

Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma, Alabama has been classified as an 'endangered' place.

The Brown Chapel AME Church, the landmark church that launched a national voting rights movement in Selma, Ala., tops this year's list of the nation's most endangered historic places.

Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma, Alabama has been classified as an 'endangered' place.

The Brown Chapel AME Church, the landmark church that launched a national voting rights movement in Selma, Ala., tops this years list of the nations most endangered historic places.

The Brown Chapel AME Church, the landmark church that launched a national voting rights movement in Selma, Ala., tops this year's list of the nation's most endangered historic places.

Like religious congregants all over, the people of historic Brown Chapel AME Church turned off the lights and locked the doors at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic because it wasn’t safe to gather for worship with a deadly virus circulating. For a time, the landmark church that launched a national voting rights movement in Selma, Alabama, was off limits. What members found when they returned was heartbreaking: Termites had eaten so much wood that parts of the structure weren't stab...