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Black Churches

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Pastors to fight black-run banks foreclosing on black churches

Tonya Garcia, Madame Noire Business
A group of Los Angeles pastors are protesting the foreclosure proceedings on a number churches, to be executed by a black-owned bank that was created to serve a once-segregated black population.
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Rev. Richard Dunn, left, and his son, Rev. Richard Dunn III, are seen in Miami, Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012, as they discuss their plans to motivate church members to vote in the upcoming elections. It's not just the collection plate that's getting passed around this fall at hundreds of mainly African-American and Latino churches in presidential battleground states and across the nation. Exhorting congregations to register to vote, church leaders are distributing registration cards in the middle of services, and many are pledging caravans of "souls to the polls" to deliver the vote. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)

Black churches use 'souls to polls' to rally vote

Curt Anderson, Associated Press
MIAMI (AP) - It's not just the collection plate that's getting passed around at hundreds of mainly African-American and Latino churches in U.S. battleground states ahead of the November presidential election...
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A woman participates in a service at Zion Baptist Church on April 1, 2012. (Photo by Linda Davidson/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

I love the black church but it doesn't love me

theGrio
OPINION - A theGrio reader speaks directly to those leaders of the black church who focus on what they call the 'sin' of homosexuality, sometimes to the exclusion of other issues of importance to black communities...
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