The William Townsend Elks Lodge will sponsor its building fundraiser with a black and white party at 9 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 27. The doors will open at 7:30 p.m. The event will feature the Billy ...

Chartered in 1925, the lodge was established because, at the time, Black people were barred from joining the city’s all-white Elks. Its founding members opened the club on Congress Street ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS — The once all-white, all-male Elks Club will make a historic gesture at the Saratoga Wilton Lodge 161 on Saturday by naming a Black woman as its Exalted Ruler and a Black man ...

It's enough of a headline that, in 2008, Warren "Neal" McCoy became the first black person voted in as a member of the Elks Lodge 309, which opened in Colorado Springs in 1895. It's even better ...