The Black women of the United Order of Tents are scrambling to save their grand Brooklyn headquarters, and to preserve their ambitious future.

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

On Giving Tuesday, two local nonprofits teamed up to beautify the headquarters of the United Order of Tents, a Bed-Stuy women's organization that has been serving the community since 1848.

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.

A Bet-Study nonprofit is fighting to save a community safe haven and home to its 174-year-old group. The 87 Macdonough St. mansion is the home of The United Order of Tents Eastern District #3, an ...