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    Jacqueline Bacon, African American writer, quoted Samuel Cornish and John Russwurm in her essay Freedom’s Journal, The First African-American Newspaper: “ We wish to plead our own cause. Too long have others spoken for us” (Brown 13). This quote gave slaves a sense of empowerment to stand up for themselves and no longer be property, but people. The Freedom Journal is the first African American newspaper that was published in March 16, 1827 in New York City by free black men Samuel Cornish and John

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    After the seminary days, the women church ministers encounter numerous challenges as they begin and carry on with their professional career. In modern African American churches, women’s’ leadership has shifted from the typical roles as leaders of women in missionary societies and groups to congregational leaders like pastoral ministry and Christian education. In the current paper, the focus is on the problems single women minister, pastor, preacher faces with dating or being in a relationship and

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    June 17, 2015, a dreadful shooting that occurred during a bible study service in Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Dylann Storm Roof, age 22, killed nine people, all African American, and one injured that left everyone speechless that night. Before the shooting, a white man with a handgun enter the church while he was soon identifies as Dylann Roof by several people, then open fire and killed nine people including the Senior Pastor and State Senator. After

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    The Charleston church shooting was a mass shooting and hate crime that took place at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Charleston, South Carolina. This took place during the evening of June 17, 2015. This shook the entire world and was heard all over the news. Nine people including the pastor were killed by the gunman Dylann Roof, A 21-year-old white supremacist. Fortunately, three people survived the Charleston church massacre. The next day after the attack, police arrested

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    Martin Luther King Jr.

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    passed. We were once again forced to ask ourselves: did we yet have a long way? A 21-year-old white man, Dylann Roof, killed nine African-American people at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C. on Wednesday, June 17. They gathered for Bible study. The mass murder has acted as an anti-black racist with radical violent statements of African-Americans. Mr. Roof posted a few views of flying the white power flag on his Facebook page several days before the tragedy. And his

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    understanding of how and why my spiritual autobiography and my church context intersect in the formulation of a topical thread for my ongoing research. Likewise, from the plenary, there were a plethora of themes covered during morning sessions pertaining to the Gospel of Matthew, Chapter 13, and the “Parable of the Sower.” These sessions were about growth and maturity, and had a direct connection to the adaptive challenges within my church. As leaders we must be careful not to fall into “thorn” like

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    A slave was then basically anyone who was not white, but color was forced to have a master in which all of the commands that came out of their mouths definitely would have to be done by a slave. Many times they were treated badly and none of the slaves had a say in anything that they would do. Slaves had no rights at all and they were considered basically nothing or a piece of property; a property in which masters could share and buy slaves for themselves. White people who could afford to buy a slave

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    apartheid. First, this paper will briefly discuss the beginning of Christianity in South Africa. Second, it will discuss Christianity and church history during the 20th century, which is the main time period referenced in the paper. Third, it will discuss church history from the oral account of and viewed through the life of Joy Hepkin, a black South African who currently resides in the United States. The fourth sections will provide a reflection on the personal value gained from this oral history

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    “The church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society.” Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 1963. This quote from Rev. King, Jr. most of the time is linked to his defense of the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism; but Rev King, Jr was first a Pastor and a Preacher! I chose this opening because Rev King despite being jailed for protesting, loved the church

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    Civil rights activist Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. At the age of two she moved to her grandparents' farm in Pine Level, Alabama with her mother and younger brother, Sylvester. At the age of 11 she enrolled in the Montgomery Industrial School for Girls, a private school founded by liberal-minded women from the northern United States. The school's philosophy of self-worth was consistent with Leona McCauley's advice to "take advantage of the opportunities, no matter

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