Black Church 
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
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For Black Americans, Spaces of Sanctuary have been a Matter of Survival
by Alicia K. Jackson
"In reality, much of African American history is the story of Americans creating their own sense of sanctuary in a land that often seems antithetical to their presence and their needs."
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SOURCE: MSNBC
11/18/2021
Black Clergy's Presence at Trial of Arbery's Killers is Nothing Unusual
by Keisha N. Blain
Black clergy have always taken leadership in challenges to racist violence; the trial judge has no good reason to bar their attendance.
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SOURCE: New York Times
2/16/2021
Henry Louis Gates Jr. on African-American Religion
Jon Meacham reviews Henry Louis Gates's book on the Black church in America; Gates seeks to recover the traditions of social and political activism in churches against skeptics who identify religion with conservatism and quietude.
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