The United Order of Tents, a charitable fraternal organization of Black women, is at risk of losing its 19th century Bedford-Stuyvesant house over a Department of Finance vacancy assessment. Legal ...

The United Order of the Tents Might Be Spared Demolition A tax exemption means the country’s oldest benefit society for black women can actually fix its crumbling Bed-Stuy headquarters.

The United Order of Tents is being ordered out of their building by the city. Ann Blandin is the deputy of the Charleston district order. She and all the members of the secretive organization are all ...

Taking care of the elderly was one of the original missions of the benevolent organization, when Annetta Lane and another former slave formed the order in 1867.

A sign hangs outside the front entrance: Eastern District Grand Tent, Grand United Order of Tents of Bklyn. This building belongs to the secret benevolent society created in 1867 by formerly ...

On this edition of Here and Now, we speak to a couple of changemakers who are part of a secret society that dates back to the Underground Railroad.

Discover Sankofa Academy, and The United Order of Tents.

The Bed Stuy chapter of the historic secret aid society run by Black women, United Order of Tents, has momentarily pulled back the curtain to ask the community for help restoring its magnificent but ...

We have been remiss in not stopping by earlier to check on progress at 196 Macon Street, where a rental building is taking shape on an empty lot formerly owned by the African American women's ...

The women of the United Order of Tents is a secretive fraternal organization that dates to Civil War times and is run entirely by black women. From left are Beatrice Givens, queen of the Tents ...

NEW YORK -- A deal was reached Wednesday to save the historic United Order of Tents in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. CBS2 first told you about the mansion in February. It belongs to the Secret ...