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Churches ready for service but Webster Memorial urges caution

AS CHURCHES make preparations for almost back-to-normal services following the easing of government restrictions on public gatherings, set to take effect today, one pastor is urging caution, declaring that his congregation will not be heading back to church in

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Meet the clergy who won’t stop in-person preaching during COVID-19

Dozens of Christian conservative activists and clergy members defied Virginia’s stay-at-home order and gathered Saturday for a “Pray for VA, Pray for USA

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Source: South Florida Times

Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

For the slave act of 1793, see Fugitive Slave Act of

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Source: BlackHistory.com

Sep

18

1850

My Faith & the Census Remind Us That “You Matter”

In addition to my ministry, one of the meaningful ways I accomplish this is by serving as a census campaign partner with LA Voice, an interfaith grassroots organization uniting over 55 congregations and over 40,000 community members to encourage our brothers and sisters to be counted on the 2020

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Source: Observer News Group – Group Newspapers of Southern California

Gangs deliver food in poor Cape Town area amid lockdown

While protecting him from the coronavirus, it would normally also put him in danger in Manenberg, one of a number of violent and poor neighborhoods on the outskirts of Cape Town known as the Cape

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

(1898) Rev. Francis J. Grimke, “The Negro Will Never Acquiesce As Long As He Lives,”

On November 20, 1898, Reverend Francis J. Grimke, pastor of the Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church of Washington, D.C., delivered a sermon in which he denounced those African Americans who called for conservatism and accommodation. Grimke vowed that as long as African Americans were deprived of

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Source: Black Past

Nov

20

1898

George Floyd gets a national send-off

“Time is out for empty words and empty promises,” said Reverend Al Sharpton at the nationally televised funeral of George Floyd Thursday afternoon in

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Source: MN Spokesman Recorder

Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick Could Be Released Really Soon – Nearly 20 Years Early – Free Press of Jacksonville

Kwame Kilpatrick, former Detroit Mayor, has been granted early release after spending 7 years of a 28-year

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Source: Free Press of Jacksonville – Florida’s First Coast Quality Black Weekly

Juneteenth celebrations in wake of racial awareness

I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the Year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim.-Frederick Douglass

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Source: Atlanta Daily World - Powered by Real Times Media

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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Source: Black Past

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

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

Virginia E. Walker Broughton: Author and Baptist Missionary

Virginia E. Walker Broughton was an African American author and Baptist

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Source: Black Then

Bishop Paul Morton Shares A Retirement Update

Nationally renowned pastor and gospel singer Bishop Paul S. Morton had announced that he would step down as senior pastor of the Changing a Generation Full Gospel Baptist Church megachurch in Atlanta in July on his 70th

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Source: La Focus Newspaper

COVID-19 forces cultural shift in West Africa weddings

Omoh, a realtor, and Mamza, a microbiologist, had set the date for April 25, with a big-budget ceremony that was to include at least 500 guests, who were to be transported to the wedding by

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Source: Dallas Post Tribune – Serving the Black community without fear or favor since 1947.

Kenya: Ambani - Why the Mad Rush to Get Married During Pandemic?

Suddenly, everyone wants to make their relationships official, so much so that the Attorneys General office at Sheria House suspended all marriage services till further notice, due to being overwhelmed by the huge

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Source: allAfrica.com

Virginia Pastor Arrested for Brandishing Gun to Defend Himself Against Racist Mob, Sheriff Later Apologizes

A Virginia sheriff apologized to a Black pastor who was arrested for trying to defend himself against a group of white people yelling threats and racial

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Source: Visit Atlanta Black Star For African-American | Black News and Information

Mourners bid farewell to Rayshard Brooks at historic church

ATLANTA (AP) — Scores of mourners Tuesday paid their final respects to Rayshard Brooks at the Atlanta church where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. used to preach, taking part in a funeral rich with historical echoes and filled with a tragic sense that Black America has been through this all too

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Source: The Birmingham Times

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

Romney’s racial justice march spotlights faith groups’ role

Mitt Romney’s participation in a racial justice march Sunday brought the startling sight of Republicans’ 2012 presidential nominee avowing that “black lives matter” – a rare statement for a federal lawmaker in his

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Source: South Florida Times

Pilgrim Baptist Church, Saint Paul, Minnesota (1863- )

Pilgrim Baptist Church in Saint Paul, Minnesota, is the oldest African American church in the state of Minnesota. A group of escaped slaves began worshiping together in 1863, and under the leadership of fellow escaped slave Robert Thomas Hickman, the church officially became Pilgrim Baptist Church

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Source: Black Past

Nov

15

1866

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

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Source: Black Then

Meet the Clergy Who Won’t Stop In-Person Preaching During COVID-19 – Free Press of Jacksonville

Dozens of Christian conservative activists and clergy members defied Virginia’s stay-at-home order and gathered Saturday for a “Pray for VA, Pray for USA

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Source: Free Press of Jacksonville – Florida’s First Coast Quality Black Weekly

Mount Zion Baptist Church, Seattle, Washington (1890- )

Home to the largest African American congregation in the state of Washington, MountZion Baptist Church was organized in Seattle on February 18, 1894. Led by Reverend Hesekiah C. Rice, eightfounding members initially met in a rented hall on the campus of the Universityof Washington, which was in

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Source: Black Past

Feb

18

1894

Defying Order, Baltimore Pastor Holds Services | Afro

By The Associated Press

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Second inauguration of Barack Obama

The second inauguration of Barack Obama as President of the United States, marked the commencement of the second term of Barack Obama as President and Joe Biden as Vice President. A private swearing-in ceremony took place on Sunday, January 20, 2013 in the Blue Room of the White House. A public

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Source: ThoughtCo

Jan

20

2013

Tennessee lawmakers adjourn without addressing race, reform

NASHVILLE — Tennessee’s Black lawmakers came back to the Capitol earlier this month with a request for their White colleagues: Advance public policy to send modest signals that say, “Yes, Black lives do

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

EXCLUSIVE: Aventer Gray Talks New Podcast, Using Her Voice Away From Her Husband & That Viral Sermon Clip

Now, she wants to share her story as a woman, outside of the just John’s wife and the First Lady of Relentless

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Source: MadameNoire

Liberia: Winners' Chapel Church Strengthens Liberia's Efforts to Fight Coronavirus

Monrovia — As part of efforts to strengthen the fight against the deadly coronavirus that is ravaging not only Liberia but the entire world, the Winners' Chapel in Liberia has donated 100 bags of rice and 1,000 nose masks to the Executive Committee on

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Source: allAfrica.com

Black church

The term black church or African-American church refers to Protestant churches that currently or historically have ministered to predominantly black congregations in the United States. While some black churches belong to predominantly African-American denominations, such as the African Methodist

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Source: ThoughtCo

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