Harris visited two Atlanta area churches as part of a nationwide push known as “souls to the polls.” It’s a mobilization effort led by the National Advisory Board of Black Faith Leaders, which is sending representatives across battleground states to encourage ear...
The assumptions of an older literature still adhere: Thomas Dixon's 1896 bestseller The Failure of Protestantism in New York and Its Causes exemplifies the narrative type.(1) Dixon's gloomy portrait of the mainline churches' failure to meet the spiritual and material needs of the...
Project Enlists Black Churches in AIDS Fight 来自 thebody.com 喜欢 0 阅读量: 21 作者: Rebecca Rakoczy 摘要: At the Interdenominational Theological Center (ITC) in Atlanta, more than 60 ministers, Sunday school teachers and parish nurses from throughout Georgia ......
JONESBORO, Ga. — Kamala Harris spent the Sunday of her 60th birthday working to turn out Black voters in Georgia, where she asked congregants at two churches outside of Atlanta to choose between a country of “chaos, fear, and hate” — represented, she implied, by...
“Instead, we get Juneteenth, and I don’t remember who asked for Juneteenth,” Browne-Marshall said, referring to the new federal holiday that commemorates the end of slavery in America. W. Franklyn Richardson, chair of the board of trustees of the Confe...
At that time the only hair salons Miami allowed in the black community were unlicensed. Nonetheless, black beauty shop owners wielded extraordinary influence in their community. The hair salon circuit was as crucial to campaigning black politicians as were black churches. The beautician's prestige wa...
How the ‘God gap’ is shaping WA votes in presidential election Harris has visited several churches in the final weeks of the election campaign. On Sunday, her 60th birthday, she made appearances at two in Georgia, coinciding with the campaign’s “Souls to the Polls” effort to turn out...
Initially observed in black schools, churches and social organizations, the event grew into Black History Month (also known as African American History Month) with the US Congress designation of February as National Black History Month in1986. ...
Let’s say for example that in 1947 your Gran asks you to come visit her in Georgia, it’s a long ride, which means you’ll have to have an overnight pit stop in Alabama. Well thanks to the Green Book you know to plan your route well in advance,so you can make sure you hit ...
Sojourner-Douglass College (SDC) came out of the struggle for self-determination in Baltimore’s black community. In the early 1970s community groups, leaders and the local Council of Churches formed an institution, Adult Education, Inc., to serve the black community by developing its self-relia...