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...skewed and foggy lens of segregation apologists—one of the many groups with which Senator Barack H. Obama has to contend come election time. Following a luncheon speech given by Obama recently to an overwhelmingly white and approbatory audience, Rev. B. Herbert Martin, who served as a pastor to Chicago’s first black mayor in the 1980s, told The Washington post of his concerns over which group Obama would identify himself with come campaigning time: “Will [Obama] continue to be an African American, or will he become some kind of new creation...
...City Council gravely watched Thursday as a succession of speakers, representing the city's various neighborhoods, railed against the violence and called on not only city leaders but citizens to do more to stop it. "We have come to lodge our complaint," growled Reverend John Raphael, Jr., pastor of New Hope Baptist Church in Central City, one of the city's most crime-plagued neighborhoods. "We have come to declare that a city that could not be drowned in the floods of a storm will not be drowned in the blood of its citizens...
...Allesandro." At the book-signing, one woman said she loved Obama's speech, except for the parts about religion; he discusses his work in his 20s as a community organizer at churches and how his famous line (and book title) "the audacity of hope" actually came from his pastor, and she said she felt this was a subject that shouldn't be discussed in polical speeches. The woman said she figured he was only talking so openly about his faith because political consultants advised him to, but Obama is, by all accounts, actually quite religious. With so little actually known...
...gathered petitions on his behalf sign their names on his casket. Clad in shiny parkas, jean jackets and sneakers, they autographed with magic markers in the Italian-flag colors of green and red: Riccardo, Jacopo, Eva, Alessia, all bid goodbye with messages of "Ciao!" and "Con affetto." Pastor Gioele Fuligno, a Baptist minister, led the funeral rites with a fire-and-brimstone sermon that stunned the Catholic crowd. Strangely, though, it all seemed to make sense to the 100 or so townsfolk in attendance. All of it except for that Texas sentence handed down to a man who never stopped...
...Harvard’s planned campus across the Charles River. “This is the beginning of a process of not only sharing our vision and views, but also yours,” said a member of the apartment’s Board of Directors and community pastor, Lawrence F.G. Fiorentino. The meeting, the second one this week, was hosted by Charlesview Inc.—the faith-based nonprofit organization that owns and runs the apartment complex—and included a presentation and extensive question-and-answer session with nonprofit consulting firm, The Community Builders...