US religious leaders to mark MLK Day with early start for 2024 voter mobilisation
United States RNS For Black church leaders and multiracial coalitions, Martin Luther King Jr Day, which falls on Monday, 15th January, less than 300 days from Election Day, has come to represent the unofficial start to voter mobilisation efforts. Plans for what would have been King’s 95th birthday are focused on overcoming increased restrictions on […]
Civil rights: Women at the first March on Washington – a secretary, a future bishop and a marshal
ADELLE M BANKS, of Religion News Service, speaks with three women who were there in 1963…
Calvin Butts, leader of Harlem’s historic Abyssinian Baptist Church, dies at 73
United StatesRNS Rev Calvin O. Butts III, the senior pastor of New York’s historic Abyssinian Baptist Church, who followed in the footsteps of prominent Black ministers and paved his own path of leadership in education, health and political circles, died on Friday, his church announced. “It is with profound sadness, we announce the passing of […]
US election: Black church turnout effort mobilises against alleged voter suppression
ADELLE M BANKS, of Religion News Service, on how Black churches in the US are encouraging congregations to vote in the US election…