A Dallas pastor is stepping into Jesse Jackson’s role as leader of his Rainbow PUSH Coalition
Dallas, US AP The civil rights group founded by Rev Jesse Jackson in the 1970s is elevating a new leader for the first time in more than 50 years, choosing a Dallas pastor as his successor to take over the Rainbow PUSH Coalition. Rev Frederick D Haynes III is set to be formally installed as […]
Pursuing justice issues: Progressive National Baptists gain partners to address voting rights, gun violence
ADELLE M BANKS, of Religion News Service, reports…
“This is our Selma moment”: US clergy leaders announce on eve of 27 mile voting rights march to Austin
RNS Fifty-six years ago, Rev Martin Luther King, Jr, led thousands of clergy and laypeople on a 54 mile (87 kilometre) voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, the state capital of Alabama. On Wednesday, Rev William J Barber II will lead a similar contingent on a four-day, 27 mile (43 kilometre) march from Georgetown […]