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<title>The  Black Church Page</title>
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<description>Highlighting the Heart of our Community</description>
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<title>“The Contagious Dignity Of A Pacesetter”</title>
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<description><![CDATA[...This preceding paragraph is an excerpt of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King&#8217;s powerful words penned in his &#8220;Letter From a Birmingham Jail.&#8221; On January 16, 2012, this country, and in fact, the rest of the world, will again salute Dr. King as an American hero. King was a pacesetter because he personified &#8220;obeying God rather than man.&#8221; The Black Church Page would like to take this opportunity to remind the African-American church that no other community should celebrate D]]></description>
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<dc:subject>WordoftheWeek</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2012-01-14T23:21:32-06:00</dc:date>
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<title>Newt Gingrich Defends His Views Before Unlikely Audience, A Black Church</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Republican presidential candidate stood at the pulpit at Jones Memorial AME Zion Church, but, unlike most campaign stops in South Carolina, he was not preaching to the choir.
Newt Gingrich, who routinely ridicules the first black leader of the United States as &#34;the food-stamp president,&#34; calmly and patiently explained his conservative views to about 80 people who half-filled the pews, a few more than half of them African American.
He did not back away from the biting label he has]]></description>
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<dc:date>2012-01-14T22:58:09-06:00</dc:date>
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<title>Black Pastor Sues Former Church Over Claim He Was Replaced Because Of His Race</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Pastor Billy Hollins, an African American and a former faith leader at St. Stephen Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky (the house of worship also has a satellite location in Jeffersonville, Indiana), has filed a discrimination complaint alleging that the church reassigned him in 2007 because of his race.
Hollins, who worked for the church from 2001 until 2011, claims that he was transfered from the Jeffersonville location to Louisville and given a new job title (executive assistant pastor) b]]></description>
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<dc:date>2012-01-14T22:55:27-06:00</dc:date>
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<title>ESPN Tackles Racial "Resentment" Of Tebow, Misses The Black Church</title>
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<description><![CDATA[When ESPN&#8217;s First Take tackled African-American resentment of Tim Tebow, they missed a key contributor to that discussion, the Black Church.
First, though, I want to commend the show for having the courage to address this controversial issue with both reason and passion.
Former NFL quarterback, and African-American, Kordell Stewart offered a closing, choked-up plea for black quarterbacks to be given some of the same chances that a media-darling, but inconsistent quarterback, like Tim Teb]]></description>
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<dc:date>2012-01-14T22:52:59-06:00</dc:date>
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<title>Black South Carolina Church Now Owns KKK Store</title>
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<description><![CDATA[After a lengthy legal battle between a black South Carolina church and members of the Ku Klux Klan, a judge has ruled that the church owns a building where KKK robes and T-shirts are sold.
A circuit judge ruled last month that New Beginnings Baptist Church is the rightful owner of the building that houses the Redneck Shop, which operates a so-called Klan museum and sells Klan robes and T-shirts emblazoned with racial slurs. The judge ordered the shop's proprietor to pay the church's legal bills]]></description>
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<dc:date>2012-01-04T03:18:15-06:00</dc:date>
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<title>New Church Alliance Teaching Communities Financial Literacy</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The pastors of half a dozen predominantly black Gulfport churches have formed an alliance to help educate their congregations on how to overcome their financial struggles. The group is called Coalition of African American Communities, or COAAC.
On Wednesday, the faith-based Operation People For Peace pulled into Gulfport with enough sausage, rice, and beans to feed more than a hundred families directly and indirectly affected by the BP oil spill. Members of COAAC helped pass out the food. 
Rev]]></description>
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<dc:subject>News&amp;Events</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2012-01-03T01:36:08-06:00</dc:date>
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<title>Dr. Gardner C. Taylor - A Lion of the Pulpit, Aging Now, Has A Message For Many</title>
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<description><![CDATA[...
During his long career, Dr. Taylor led Concord Baptist Church of Christ in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, from obscurity to national prominence. He had been one of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.&#8217;s closest allies in the civil rights movement. He had received more than a dozen honorary doctoral degrees, had been named by Baylor University as among the dozen most effective preachers in the English-speaking world and had been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Bi]]></description>
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<dc:subject>News&amp;Events</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2012-01-03T01:32:47-06:00</dc:date>
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<title>African American Children In Mennonite Families Bridge Two Worlds</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Janelle and Jasmine Newswanger lead simple, contented lives in one of Pennsylvania's Mennonite communities.
The 17-year-old twins drive a horse-drawn buggy, wear long dresses and white head coverings, and see their friends at church on Sundays.
Done with education at 14, after finishing eighth grade, Jasmine works as a teacher's aide, and Janelle helps her mother around the house, speaking Pennsylvania Dutch and English.
The girls blend in with the people in their lives, set apart in only one]]></description>
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<dc:subject>News&amp;Events</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2012-01-03T01:26:00-06:00</dc:date>
<dc:creator>Posted by eanthonypreston</dc:creator>
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<title>Southern Baptists Could Make History With First African-American President</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Southern Baptists may elect their first African-American president during their annual meeting in June in New Orleans...
The leading candidate to become president of the Southern Baptist Convention is megachurch pastor the Rev. Fred Luter of Franklin Avenue Baptist Church, who is currently a vice president.
The convention was formed in 1845 after Northern and Southern Baptists split over whether slaveholders could be missionaries...]]></description>
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<dc:date>2012-01-03T01:21:52-06:00</dc:date>
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<title>“Ageless Help For Ancient Challenges”</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Allow me to borrow your memory and your imagination this week to impart an important Christmas truth. Despite the fact that our society, including much of the churched society, is seemingly carried away with trees, treats, tots, tinsel, and toys, God the Son would have us gain and celebrate something eternal as a result of His becoming flesh through a set of &#8220;mysterious events&#8221; and meager surroundings...
Now look with me at some of the themes of the advent of Jesus Christ that are s]]></description>
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<dc:subject>WordoftheWeek</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2011-12-21T00:47:45-06:00</dc:date>
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<title>“Should the Black Church Embrace Kwanzaa?”</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Kwanzaa, created exclusively for persons of African descent, is said to be &#8220;a celebration of family, community and culture.&#8221; But as widely accepted as the week of celebration has become in the African-American community, is it a cultural festivity that black Christians should start embracing or continue to embrace? While I am not na&#239;ve enough to think that this question has not long been settled for millions in the African-American church, allow me to put my thoughts into play b]]></description>
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<dc:subject>WordoftheWeek</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2011-12-21T00:32:38-06:00</dc:date>
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<title>“Is It Just About Fruitcake?”</title>
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<description><![CDATA[...I remember my pastor, Dr. Keith A. Troy, preaching a provocative message that reminded the listeners Whose birthday it is we are to be celebrating. He said it is okay for us to give each other nice things, but we also be led to give a special offering to recognize the birth of Christ. &#8220;Fruitcake&#8221; sprung to mind when I thought of how we sometimes thoughtlessly and selfishly give to others even during Christmas. I will spare you by not naming a litany of challenges within the Africa]]></description>
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<dc:date>2011-12-11T23:48:49-06:00</dc:date>
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<title>Texas Man Gets 37 Years For Fire Bombing Church</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A Texas man who prosecutors said wanted to &#34;gain status&#34; with the white supremacist gang The Aryan Brotherhood was sentenced to more than 37 years in prison on Wednesday for fire bombing an African American church in an admitted attempt to murder a parishioner.
Steven Scott Cantrell, 26, a resident of the tiny west Texas town of Crane, pleaded guilty in federal court in Midland, Texas, to charges of damaging religious property, arson, and interfering with housing, all prosecuted with ]]></description>
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<dc:subject>News&amp;Events</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2011-12-11T22:54:58-06:00</dc:date>
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<title>Another Great Migration To The South</title>
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<description><![CDATA[WHAT happens within the black community when the gap widens between the poor and the affluent? That's one question raised by new census data showing well-off African-Americans leaving cities for the suburbs and the South while the ranks of the black poor grow larger.
Over the past decade, the share of black households ranking among the poorest poor -- those earning less than US$15,000 (RM46,500) -- climbed from 20 per cent to 26 per cent, according to census figures released on Thursday...]]></description>
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<dc:date>2011-12-11T22:51:48-06:00</dc:date>
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<title>Fight Erupts In Memphis Church During Communion</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Memphis police are questionning a number of members at New Salem Baptist Church after a fight broke out during communion Sunday.
According to police documents, two women started arguing inside the building, when family and friends intervened. Reportedly, someone hit another person with an umbrella and then it turned into a brawl...]]></description>
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<dc:date>2011-12-11T22:47:15-06:00</dc:date>
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<title>“You Know You Need To Be Thankful”</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Happy Thanksliving! No, I did not misspell a word - the spelling here is quite intentional. One thing I have learned about giving thanks is it must not be a &#8220;pause&#8221; for a day but a &#8220;position&#8221; for a lifestyle. To drive this point home and to counter the very shallow understanding of&#160;&#160; &#34;turkey day, &#34;let&#8217;s popularize the term &#8220;thanksliving.&#8221; In my early life, the people that put their personal stamp on my life by sharing in my nurturing ]]></description>
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<dc:subject>WordoftheWeek</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2011-11-21T00:39:12-06:00</dc:date>
<dc:creator>Posted by eanthonypreston</dc:creator>
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<title>8 Reasons For Marital Failure Amongst African Americans</title>
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<description><![CDATA[..Because one&#8217;s relationship behavior, under such circumstances, is largely under the control of unconscious impulses it should come as no surprise to you that selfishness ranks at the top of the list of reasons for relationship dissatisfaction. When your dating or mating behavior is largely driven by an unmet childhood need, your partner simply becomes a means to an end, but NOT the end itself. Thusly, you end up using and exploiting them, for what they can give to you, without offering a]]></description>
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<dc:subject>News&amp;Events</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2011-11-21T00:33:45-06:00</dc:date>
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<title>Anti-Muslim Prayer Rally: Hate Detroit Didn’t Need</title>
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<description><![CDATA[&#34;The Call,&#34; a fundamentalist religious organization based in Kansas City, and apparently modeled after the infamous Westboro Baptist Church, held an anti-Muslim prayer rally in Detroit at Ford Field on Saturday, November 13. This rally of hate was the last thing greater Detroit needed as it tries to recover economically, and become a unified urban center embracing all its diverse ethnic and religious populations.
The Detroit Lions and the Ford family would have been far better served ]]></description>
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<dc:subject>News&amp;Events</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2011-11-21T00:17:40-06:00</dc:date>
<dc:creator>Posted by eanthonypreston</dc:creator>
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<title>1968 Memphis Sanitation Striker Taylor Rogers Dies</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In 1968, when African-American men were often expected to walk with heads bowed, Taylor Rogers joined a movement and walked, head high, into history.
Mr. Rogers was one of more than 1,300 city of Memphis sanitation workers who walked off the job and onto a picket line, demanding dignity, fairness and workplace safety.
Mr. Rogers died Saturday at Methodist University Hospital. He was 85...]]></description>
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<dc:date>2011-11-21T00:10:25-06:00</dc:date>
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<title>Church Of God In Christ Will Meet In St. Louis For Fourth Year</title>
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<description><![CDATA[...The legislative body of the Church of God in Christ, the largest African-American Pentecostal denomination in the country &#8212; whose members refer to themselves as 'saints&#34; &#8212; said Tuesday that it would extend its three-year commitment to St. Louis for a fourth year.
The church's General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to hold its 106th Holy Convocation in the city in November 2013. The vote came at the end of the 2011 Holy Convocation, the church's annual nine-day conference...
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<dc:date>2011-11-20T23:55:55-06:00</dc:date>
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<title>Truth? Myth? or Lie? Black Public Media Tackles Our Notions Of Blackness</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Admit it. We&#8217;ve all had those conversations about what's Black and what's not. &#8216;Black Folk Do&#8217;:&#160; believe in God; go to church; spend a fortune on looking good. You get the idea. And then, there is that other conversation that lays out what &#8216;Black Folk Don&#8217;t': listen to country music; wear ripped jeans; go on backpacking vacations. And those are just the claims that probably won&#8217;t start a fight.

Our ideas about &#8216;What Black Folk Don&#8217;t Do&rsqu]]></description>
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<dc:subject>News&amp;Events</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2011-07-28T01:06:49-06:00</dc:date>
<dc:creator>Posted by eanthonypreston</dc:creator>
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<title>Floridians Protest New Voting Law</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Rev. Jesse Jackson Jr. and leaders in Florida have embarked on a two-day campaign to build awareness among African-American voters and local lawmakers in the state about the impact that the proposed new voting regulations would have on minorities and low-income people.
&#160;&#8220;The irony is we fight wars for democracy abroad and declare war on democracy at home,&#8221; Jackson said during a news conference before a rally at the New Covenant Baptist Church of Orlando Monday night. &#8220;All]]></description>
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<dc:date>2011-07-28T00:54:55-06:00</dc:date>
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<title>"Seeking A 'Can't Help It' Missions Church"</title>
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<description><![CDATA[...
Never afraid of repetition, I am moved to repeat one of the same commentaries that I authored prior to the convention last year. It is still relevant and, admittedly, because of my many limitations, there are just times that I cannot say things any better a year later. In keeping with its food imagery, just think of it as the tasty and nourishing &#8220;leftovers&#8221; that served us well in the past. Here again is the mission commentary offered unedited:
I am honored to return this year ]]></description>
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<dc:date>2011-07-28T00:42:11-06:00</dc:date>
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<title>Soul Food Restaurant Rescues Women From Prostitution And Employs Them</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Boujhetto&#8217;s Restaurant &#8216;Business in the Ghetto&#8221; at 2458 Cleveland Avenue, Columbus opens its doors for its Grand Opening event this Saturday, July 16, 2011 from Noon &#8211; 9 pm featuring a savory soul food menu, valet parking, and live entertainment.&#160; This special event includes a live remote from Radio Station 106.3 (Gospel).&#160; Healthy soul food rounds out the menu with smoked meats, as well as Southern-style fried dishes to stimulate the palate.
Boujhetto&#8217;s ]]></description>
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<dc:date>2011-07-16T23:57:06-06:00</dc:date>
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<title>Passing Of Dr. Beverly Dunston Scott</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Black Church Page regrets to inform you of the death of Dr. Beverly Dunston Scott, former President of Lott Carey's Women's Auxiliary (2001 - 2004) and spouse of Dr. James A. Scott, Pastor Emeritus of Bethany Baptist Church, Newark, NJ and for President of the Lott Carey Baptist Foreign Mission Convention (1982 - 1985).&#160; The arrangements are as follows...
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<dc:date>2011-07-12T06:17:05-06:00</dc:date>
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<title>“The Urgency Of Choosing Right”</title>
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<description><![CDATA[On Monday, July 4th, the United States celebrated its most meaningful political holiday &#8211; Independence Day. While my feelings that surround The Fourth of July are consistent with those chronicled in my Memorial Day writing (week of May 28, 2011), the holiday again affords me an opportunity to address the issues of freedom and choice from a spiritual vantage point and not simply be carried away in some independence daze.
As I purposely avoid a protracted treatise on the doctrines of electi]]></description>
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<dc:date>2011-07-07T00:30:17-06:00</dc:date>
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<title>Struggling White Church Disbands & Gives Black Church Its Building</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Two Southern Baptist churches in Gainesville, one Anglo and one African American, struggled to find new identities in their changing neighborhoods. Although only one church survived, by all accounts, their story is a happy one.
For more than ten years Lighthouse Baptist Church, an Anglo church in northwest Gainesville, struggled to find a way to minister in its changing neighborhood...]]></description>
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<dc:date>2011-07-07T00:17:49-06:00</dc:date>
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<title>Church And Community Say Goodbye To Bishop J.O. Patterson, Jr.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[For those who are members of the Church of God in Christ, the Mason Temple in Memphis is sacred ground. COGIC began in this city, and for years it's headquarters was the temple. It's a place where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke the night before he was murdered, saying his people would get to the promised land. It is a special place.
Bishop J.O.Patterson, Jr. belonged here. There were tears from his family, stories from clergy, there was gospel. Tradition is important in COGIC, and it was fol]]></description>
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<dc:date>2011-07-07T00:07:15-06:00</dc:date>
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<title>Southern Baptists Poised To Elect African-American To Number Two Position</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The man expected to be in the running to become the first African-American in the No. 2 position of the nation's largest Protestant denomination didn't choose to become a Southern Baptist. By Fred Luter Jr.'s account, it just sort of happened. 
In 1986, Luter was hired at the head pastor at Franklin Avenue Baptist Church in New Orleans, a Southern Baptist Convention affiliate. Ever since, he has been breaking racial barriers in the predominantly white denomination.
In 1992, he was the first Af]]></description>
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<dc:date>2011-06-18T14:51:21-06:00</dc:date>
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<title>Oklahoma, Nation Says Goodbye To Clara Luper, Determined Civil Rights Pioneer</title>
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<description><![CDATA[...
Clara Luper answered the &#8220;call for justice&#8221; when she led the sit-in movement in Oklahoma City and forever changed the city and nation, a leader with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People said Friday.
She did it not for fame or fortune or ego &#8212; but because it was the right thing to do,&#8221; Roslyn M. Brock, chairman of the national NAACP board of directors, said.
Brock made her remarks during Luper's funeral service at the Cox Convention Center.]]></description>
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<dc:date>2011-06-18T14:41:09-06:00</dc:date>
<dc:creator>Posted by eanthonypreston</dc:creator>
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