Word: gospels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Much of the uproar came about as a result of the way the Muslims got their land. Ray Wyatt, 41, a gospel-singing segregationist, is hardly the sort to advance the cause of the black man. Yet it was he who sold his 376-acre Big Beaver Ranch to the Muslims for $115,000 last May. He claims that he did not know he was dealing with the Muslims at the time. But there was little doubt of Muslim involvement in July, when Wyatt and a local dentist, Dr. Robert McClung, sold the Muslims an additional 541-acre parcel...
...doctrine, he will, unlike Mclntyre, almost certainly have a more ready ear for complaints. "The church must make her own the social needs of the world of men," said Manning in his first statement as archbishop. "She must engage in conversation about these problems, apply the light of the Gospel to their healing, rescue rather than sit in judgment, serve rather than come to be served...
Their name is the Voices of East Harlem, and they sing a peculiar mixture of blues, gospel and pop music. In the blase world of popular music, however, few acts can equal the infectious thrill of all those young gospel-shouting vocal cords going at it with a single purpose: to make the last guy in the last row hear them and join...
From the beginning, though, the youngsters had a few things going for them. One was a massive ex-gospel singer named Bernice Cole, who was called in by Chuck Griffin of the East Harlem Federation Youth Association. "When they asked me to start a choir," recalls Miss Cole, "I said 'Nothin' doin'. I don't think I have the patience anymore.' So of course I started in doing it. The kids had fun, but we didn't think of it as anything but a once-a-week get-together...