Leonardo Blair

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  Sep 30, 2020

  Hillsong Church apologizes for tweet calling President Trump a ‘bully’ during debate

  Hillsong Church apologized late Tuesday night for a post on its Twitter account that called President Donald Trump a “bully” and suggested his microphone be cut during the first presidential debate.

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  Sep 30, 2020

  W. Virginia pastor walks 175 miles to bring awareness to extreme poverty, homelessness

  A West Virginia pastor recently completed a 175-mile walk over eight days to draw attention to extreme poverty and homelessness being faced by people across the state who are often ignored by society.

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  Sep 29, 2020

  Renowned race and religion scholar Michael Eric Dyson to join Vanderbilt University

  Michael Eric Dyson, a renowned race and religion scholar and ordained Baptist minister, who currently serves as professor of sociology at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., will join the faculty of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, on Jan. 1, 2021 the school announced Monday.

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  Sep 29, 2020

  Kentucky AG to release grand jury recordings in Breonna Taylor case after juror files motion

  Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron said Monday that he will release the recording of secret grand jury proceedings that considered charges against three white Louisville police officers in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor inside her apartment in March.

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  Sep 29, 2020

  Lower-income Americans, blacks and Hispanics bearing brunt of COVID-19 economic fallout: study

  Large swaths of American adults have been struggling to pay for necessities like housing and food since the start of the new coronavirus pandemic. But the brunt of the economic fallout from the virus has been more acutely felt among adults with lower incomes, those without a college degree and black and Hispanic Americans.

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  Sep 28, 2020

  ‘We have been blind to our white privilege,’ evangelical pastor says at racial justice event

  A group of white clergy asked their black counterparts for forgiveness and prayerfully committed to actively work to achieve racial justice as they marked four months since the death of George Floyd at the Bethel AME Church in Spokane, Washington, Friday.

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  Sep 28, 2020

  Conservative Clergy of Color slams Kamala Harris for praising ‘brilliance’ of Black Lives Matter founders

  Conservative Clergy of Color, a coalition of African-American pastors who say they were called to bring a new perspective to the nation’s conversation on race, slammed Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris on Friday for praising the “brilliance” of the founders of Black Lives Matter.

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  Sep 26, 2020

  Only 20% of Americans see racial inequality as important issue facing families, poll finds

  While a majority of American families have discussed Black Lives Matter and police brutality in the wake of ongoing protests about racial inequality, only a minority of them, regardless of political affiliation, see it as an important issue according to the latest American Family Survey.

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  Sep 25, 2020

  ‘Woke, liberal’ Big Tech firms trying to influence election against Trump, Sen. Hawley warns

  Big Tech companies like Facebook, Google and Twitter are operated by “woke capitalists” who are intent on using their “enormous power” to influence the outcome of the 2020 elections and censor conservative voices, Republican Sen. Josh Hawley from Missouri warned Thursday.

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  Sep 24, 2020

  Just 2% of millennials hold a biblical worldview, lowest among all adults: study

  Although 61% of American millennials consider themselves to be Christian, just 2% of them were found to hold a biblical worldview, according to a recent study released by the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University.