At the top of our agenda this week, the GOP mugs Attorney General Eric Holder. Is Mitt Romney trying to suppress good economic news in swing states? What will Romney say when he addresses the NAACP? Our newsmaker guest, the Rev. Fred Luter, Jr., the first African-American president of the 167-year-old Southern Baptist Convention. [...]
History was made this past week at the Southern Baptist Convention when they elected their first Black president. The SBC was founded in 1845 after southern members split from northern Baptists over the southerners’ defense of slavery, segregation and White supremacy. Of course, the SBC had a long history during Jim Crow as well, and [...]
REVEREND FRED LUTER, FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN PRESIDENT OF THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION, ACTRESS AND ACTIVIST JADA PINKETT SMITH AND ACTOR AND RAPPER ICE-T ARE AMONG THE GUESTS ON WASHINGTON WATCH WITH ROLAND MARTIN ON SUNDAY, JUNE 24 – Topics to include the historic move this week by the Southern Baptist Convention in electing its first black [...]
Rev. Fred Luter will officially become the first black president of the nation’s largest protestant denomination. WATCH:
Source: AP / Jet Magazine NEW ORLEANS— The Southern Baptist Convention has elected its first African-American leader. The Rev. Fred Luter Jr. was elected president of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination on Tuesday at its annual meeting. He is the pastor at Franklin Avenue Baptist Church in New Orleans. The historic move comes as the [...]
Source: AP / MSNBC Rev. Fred Luter Jr. is poised to become the first African American president of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination when convention delegates vote next week in New Orleans. It’s a big step for a denomination that was formed out of a pre-Civil War split with northern Baptists over slavery and for much of the [...]
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