Dear Reader: Embrace the life beyond the cocoon

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Dear Reader: Embrace the life beyond the cocoon

Dear Reader, I’m not sure how my words will find you when you read them, but I pray that they will bring you hope, perspective, and the courage to embrace the process of change. When your world changes, don’t be afraid to change with it because the process of change will also bring with it […]

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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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First Baptist Church [St. Louis, Missouri] (1817- )

First Baptist Church in St. Louis, founded as First African Baptist Church, is the oldest continuously operating black church in Missouri. The precursor to the church was founded by John Peck and James Welch, two white Baptist missionaries sent west in 1817 by the Baptist Triennial Missionary

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Barack Obama's Faith - 2012 Presidential Candidates

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Religion in Black America

Religion in Black America refers to the religious and spiritual practices of blacks and people of African descent in the United States. Historians generally agree that the religious life of Black Americans forms the foundation of their community life.[1] Before 1775 there was scattered evidence of

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First African Methodist Episcopal Church, Seattle, Washington (1886- )

Established in 1886 when Washington was still a territory, the First African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Seattle, Washington is the state’s oldest black church. Initially, members began by meeting in each other’s homes. These meetings eventually led to the opening of a home based Sunday

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Wright, Theodore Sedgwick (ca. 1797-1847)

Theodore Sedgwick Wright, prominent clergyman, antislavery leader, and reformer was thought to have been born in New Jersey in 1797. He attended the New York African Free School. With the help of New York Governor Dewitt Clinton, Arthur Tappan and others from Princeton Theological Seminary, he

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Garnet, Henry Highland (1815-1882)

Born into slavery near New Markey, Maryland on December 23, 1815, Henry Highland Garnet escaped from bondage via the Underground Railroad with his parents, George and Henrietta Trusty in 1824. After residing briefly in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, the family settled in New York City, New York

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(1850) Lucy Stanton, “A Plea for the Oppressed”

Lucy Stanton was probably the first African American woman to complete a four-year collegiate course of study. Stanton, the daughter of John Brown, a Cleveland barber active in the Underground Railroad, enrolled in nearby Oberlin Collegiate Institute (now Oberlin College) in northern Ohio. The

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James & Lydia Sims

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First African Methodist Episcopal Church, Los Angeles, California, (1872- )

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(1842) Charles Lenox Remond, “The Rights Of Colored Citizens In Traveling”

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1842

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Silver Bluff Baptist Church [South Carolina] (1773- )

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(1968) Martin Luther King, Jr., “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop”

The following speech, a sermon Dr. Martin Luther King gave at Mason Temple in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 3, 1968, was the last public appearance before his assassination the next day. King, in Memphis to support a strike by garbage workers, gives a poignant vision of the victorious future of the

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Turner, Henry McNeal (1834-1915)

Black Nationalist, repatriationist, and minister, Henry M. Turner was 31 years old at the time of the Emancipation. Turner was born in 1834 in Newberry Courthouse, South Carolina to free black parents Sarah Greer and Hardy Turner. The self-taught Turner by the age of fifteen worked as a janitor

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First African Baptist Church, Savannah, Georgia (1773– )

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(1849) Charles Sumner, “Equality Before the Law: Unconstitutionality of Separate Colored Schools in Massachusetts”

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(1918) Rev. Francis J. Grimke, “Victory for the Allies and the United States a Ground of Rejoicing, of Thanksgiving”

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Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church (1816- )

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Jackie Joyner-Kersee - Life of a Great Female Athlete

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Carter, Rubin "The Hurricane" (1937-2014)

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Gray, William Herbert, III (1941–2013)

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