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Black pastors: Gun violence isn’t just a problem for white suburbs
By Adelle M. Banks — April 24, 2013
WASHINGTON (RNS) Black clergy have launched a new coalition to fight gun violence, saying they are undeterred by the recent failure of legislation on Capitol Hill.
Fifty years later, church leaders respond to King’s “Birmingham Jail” letter
By Adelle M. Banks — April 12, 2013
(RNS) Fifty years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. challenged white church leaders to confront racism, an ecumenical network has responded to his “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” Christian Churches Together in the USA has produced a 20-page document that answers King and includes confessions of church bodies about their silence and slow pace in addressing racial injustice.
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