Emmett Till memorialised in monument that includes Chicago church
United StatesRNS For Rev Wheeler Parker, Jr, it was the moment he had long awaited and once could not have envisioned. The older cousin of Emmett Till, Parker is the sole remaining witness to the 1955 kidnapping of the Black teenager, who was dragged from his bed to face a lynching that galvanised the civil […]
Church of God in Christ names Detroit’s Bishop J Drew Sheard new presiding bishop
RNS A Detroit bishop of the Church of God in Christ has been named the new presiding bishop of the nation’s largest historically Black Pentecostal denomination. Bishop J Drew Sheard, the husband of Gospel singer Karen Clark Sheard of The Clark Sisters, was elected on Saturday by the COGIC General Assembly, the denomination announced. Bishop […]