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...Beatrice had topped Black Enterprise magazine's list of African American-owned businesses every year. But Lewis set off a howl in the black community when she completely dropped financial contributions to more than 50 charitable foundations and organizations that her husband had supported, including the N.A.A.C.P., the Abyssinian Baptist Church, the Boys Choir of Harlem, the Urban League and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Only a last-minute call from the Rev. Jesse Jackson's wife Jackie spared Jackson's "rainbow coalition." Lewis, who points out that she also cut off new donations to Harvard, public television...
Meanwhile, word of the seminar spread. A New York Times story claimed that it offered "the best conversations in New York City." One day a former Baptist preacher from Texas dropped by. Like Visotzky, Bill Moyers was not particularly nourished by the picture of the patriarchs he had encountered in Sunday school and seminary. "The figures were drawn for moral instruction and therefore had to be flawless individuals who ought to be in stained-glass windows," he says. Sometime after attending Visotzky's supper, Moyers found himself sitting in his apartment at 3 a.m., having just read Genesis straight through...
...came to Harvard knowing most of the Bible in my head but not in my heart," said Angela Suh Um '92, founder of the Asian Baptist Koinonia and an organizer of the forum. "I came here and started thinking about the fundamentals and turned to God for the answers...
Clearly, the Fergusons were the key agents on the ground for this covert operation. On July 17, Mary Jo Ferguson wrote a note to the National Park Service requesting a permit to hold a "wedding ceremony" on Cumberland Island. The wedding would be held at the First African Baptist Church, near the northernmost point of the island. In the weeks leading up to that date, the Fergusons discreetly arranged all the supplies and staff for the dinner and the reception. Charlie Taylor, who owns a company on the mainland that provided some of the food, says...
CareGroup, which is also the parent company of New England Baptist Hospital, will have a single administration and board of directors. Decision-making authority will be shared among the various hospitals, physicians and physician groups...