‘His music was his ministry’: A Boulder Methodist pastor’s legacy of civil rights, service and creative expression

District Conference of the Southwest District, South Mississippi Conference

The Rev. Banks presided over her first District Conference as an anointed leader, leaning and depending on the Holy Spirit for direction with Mr. Tony Banks, the district consultant, provided the spiritual support as a loving and dedicated

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Source: The Christian Recorder

To Combat Disparities, Black Churches In Dallas Offer Coronavirus Testing

Cooper Neill for NPR

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Source: Stories About Black History

Reaching the Masses: What Our New Normal Has Showcased

Virtual church has driven the young and old to connect on platforms that were once not accepted in

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Source: The Christian Recorder

Op-Ed: We Have a Right to be Angry!

In the last several months, we have witnessed the outcry of God’s people in so many ways—people wailing and moaning with tears of disbelief, death, and

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Source: Black News Black Press | Los Angeles Sentinel | Los Angeles Sentinel | Black News

The Role of the Black Church During a Pandemic

As I processed the article and the dialogue it generated, my personal and pastoral PTSD was kicked into overdrive recalling the pummeling my church (New Birth) and I took just a few weeks earlier when we announced that we’d formulated a partnership with a telemedicine firm and a community health

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Source: Chicago Defender

Third New Hope Baptist Church Donates $5,000 To Detroit Justice Center

Lead Pastor QuanTez Pressley and Third New Hope Baptist Church (TNH), located on Detroit’s westside, is donating $5,000 to the Detroit Justice Center

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Source: Michigan Chronicle - Powered by Real Times Media

TSD FLASH! - Community in photos, something to ponder and today's music video vibe: Aretha Franklin serenades the Obamas

Something to ponder: ‘Old, sick and incarcerated’ There were 4623 incarcerated people over 65 in federal prisons during the first week of

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Source: TSDMemphis.com - The New Tri-State Defender - TSDMemphis.com

Mayor Johnson calls a special meeting in response to excessive force claims during peaceful protests

Mayor Eric Johnson called a Dallas City Council special meeting June 5 in response to reports of police

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Source: The Dallas Examiner

Calvary Baptist Church, Spokane, Washington (1890- )

Early in 1890, in Spokane, Washington, a small group of African American citizens gathered “to consider the propriety of organizing a church.” The name Calvary Baptist Church was adopted, and thus was founded the citys first historically black church. Its founding transcended race and

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Source: Black Past

"Not So Fast", Say L.A. Pastors Who Will Not Be Opening Their Churches This Sunday

Under the new guidance, places of worship can hold religious services and funerals that limit attendance to 25% of a building’s capacity – or up to 100 attendees, whichever is lower – upon approval by the county department of public

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Source: La Focus Newspaper

Ella Jones is elected first Black mayor of Ferguson, MO

Jones is also the first woman to lead the Missouri city, which erupted in protests in 2014 after a white police officer shot and killed Michael Brown, a black

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Source: Milwaukee Times Weekly Newspaper – Journalistic Excellence, Service, Integrity and Objectivity Always

AME church to address BLM, voting rights, in delayed meeting

The African Methodist Episcopal Church, the United States’ oldest historically Black denomination, launched its General Conference on Tuesday with delegates... View Article The post AME church to address BLM, voting rights, in delayed meeting appeared first on TheGrio.

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Religious party to ban strip clubs, casinos

The church-based Jamaica Progressive Party (JPP) will abolish income tax, ban go-go clubs, and raise salaries for civil servants if it gains state

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Ferguson picks Ella Jones as first African American and first woman mayor

Also losing reelection bids were the mayors of Breckenridge Hills and Velda Village Hills, Mary Aman and Earlene

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Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch | Breaking News | STLtoday.com

Lillian J.B. Fox: First African-American Writer for a White Newspaper in Indiana

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Source: Black Then

My Truth: The Very Last!

I felt my heart beating faster and faster as I watched the video of Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin steadily applying pressure to the neck of George Floyd until he killed

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Source: Delivering News You Can Use

Remembrance in the Cemetery: In Search of “The Accidental Slaveowner”

In the account below Central Washington University anthropologist Mark Auslander describes why he wrote The Accidental Slaveholder, which describes the curious ways in which the legacy of slavery extend into the contemporary

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Source: Black Past

Trump finalizes rollback of LGBTQ health protections

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Source: theGrio

Pioneer African Baptist church organized

Pioneer African Baptist church organized in Savannah, Ga., with Andrew Bryan as pastor.

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Hope through the suffering

In a nation with a long shameful history of public lynchings as spectacle and entertainment, George Floyd’s murder has ignited something new: public mourning and public outcry for real

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Source: The Dallas Examiner

Encore Performance for Marc Raby, Birmingham Playwright

Creatives and artists have been suffering, as well, and Marc Raby, director of the Encore Theatre and Gallery in East Birmingham, has spent the past month helping the best way he knows

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Source: The Birmingham Times

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Rev. Thomas Kilgore, a Los Angeles pastor, was elected president of the predominantly white American Baptist Convention.

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Gizelle Bryant Defends Jamal Bryant Against ‘Love Child’ Rumors [WATCH]

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Source: Black America Web

How do believers exercise faith amid COVID-19?

A meme suggesting that persons who wear masks during the current pandemic lack faith in God is just one example of a growing

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Source: Houston Defender Network - Houston's Leading Black Community News & Information Source

Nigeria: U.S. Condemns Killing of Civilians in Nigeria By Boko Haram, ISWAP

Abuja — The United States government Wednesday condemned what it described as the "brazen killings of civilians" by terrorist groups, Boko Haram and the Islamic State for West Africa Province (ISWAP) in the North-east as well as armed bandits in the North-west and North-central parts

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Source: allAfrica.com

Burns United Methodist Church (1866- )

Burns United Methodist Church (UMC) in Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa, is the oldest still-operating historically African American congregation in the state of Iowa. It was originally organized in 1866 as the Black Methodist Episcopal Church of Iowa, during a decade in which there were fewer than

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Source: Black Past

Uganda Wants People to Leave Flooded Wetlands - and Not Come Back

This year's flooding may have helped their case

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Source: allAfrica.com

Rayshard Brooks' memorial and funeral will be held at Ebenezer Baptist Church | The Atlanta Voice

The family and friends of Rayshard Brooks will honor his life in a funeral service on Tuesday, more than a week after the 27-year-old father was shot and killed by an Atlanta police

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

Robeson, Paul (1898-1976) - Birthday

Robeson was born in Princeton, New Jersey on April 9, 1898, to Reverend William Drew Robeson, the pastor of Princeton’s Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church, and Maria Louisa Bustill Robeson.

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Trinity African Methodist Episcopal Church (1890- )

The Trinity African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church is the oldest continuously operating black church in Utah. Trinity AME was organized in 1890 by Rev. T. Saunders when Salt Lake City was the capital of Utah Territory. The early date of founding reflects the presence of black non-Mormon

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