Black faith leaders call for non-violent resistance, strikes if Trump refuses election results
RNS More than 100 Black faith leaders have signed an online pledge calling for non-violent resistance and an economic and general strike if President Donald Trump refuses to accept the election results. “We are mobilizing massive voter turnout to defeat Trump. And if Trump attempts to cheat or steal his way out of losing, we […]
Black clergy in the US say NAACP on a “path toward irrelevancy”
RNS Rev Cornell William Brooks, NAACP President and CEO, speaks at the We Shall Not Be Moved Rally in Washington, D.C., in January, 2017. PICTURE: Creative Commons/Lorie Shaull The bishops of the African Methodist Episcopal Church are urging an overhaul of civil rights organisation, the NAACP, while acknowledging both historic black organisations need to find […]