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...major, major" appeal for calm. Said he: "I oppose all bigotry against anyone, anywhere. I abhor it. I denounce it, and I'll do anything -- anything right and anything effective -- to prevent it." Speaking for many blacks and whites, the Rev. Calvin Butts, pastor of Harlem's % Abyssinian Baptist Church, welcomed Dinkins' appeal but noted that it "should have been delivered months...
After gathering in front of City Hall, the crowd was addressed by the Rev. Jeffery Brown of the Union Baptist Church and several CRLS students and graduates...
...skirmishes galvanized inner-city outrage toward target marketing. In New York City the Rev. Calvin Butts of the Abyssinian Baptist Church has led whitewashing expeditions through the streets of Harlem to cover up billboards promoting such products. In Chicago a mysterious crusader who calls himself Mandrake has been painting over similar billboards in black and Hispanic neighborhoods. Several billboard companies have responded by voluntarily limiting the placement of certain ads. Since January the Patrick Media Group of Scranton, Pa., has eliminated its ads for cigarettes and liquor near schools and churches in 15 major cities...
Twenty-eight Harvard students sat uncomfortably in the wooden pews of the Lookout Baptist Church in Fayette County, West Virginia, as the minister solicited student souls for salvation...
...Hall '93, who at 19 is already an associate minister of the Union Baptist Church in Cambridge...