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Gray left the House in 1991 to assume the Fundpresidency. Prior to his political career, he wasa Baptist minister and a lecturer. Gray willundertake his new government positions as aprivate citizen and will received...
Professor of Afro-American Studies and of African American Religious History Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham is a top scholar of African-American religious history and thought. She is an expert in feminist history and the author of a well-received book on the women's movement in the Black Baptist Church...
Higginbotham's first book, Righteous Discontent, focuses on the women's movement in the Black Baptist church...
...music can offer catharsis for both performer and audience -- is taken directly from the sacred-music traditions of African Americans. Listen to the secular love songs of Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston or Toni Braxton; close your eyes, ignore the lyrics, and you might as well be in a black Baptist church in Georgia. "When you listen to popular music, in America or worldwide, you can hear the African-American musical tradition," says Bernice Johnson Reagon, Wade in the Water's narrator, conceptual director and guiding spirit. "What a lot of people don't know is that so much of what...
...high school sweetheart and had two daughters, ages 14 and 10. Just as important to him, he had become a devout Christian, focusing on what had previously seemed an irrelevant corner of life. While living in the campus town of Ann Arbor, Collins and his wife helped start a Baptist church. The congregation -- and his marriage -- has since dissolved, but his faith, which he describes as basically nondenominational, endures...