Word: revs
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...Still, if Gray is too liberal for a Bush Cabinet, there are many other respected African-American politicians and scholars who might be willing to join it, provided they were given some real influence over policy. Some of my black Republican friends are pushing the Rev. Floyd Flake, pastor of the Allen African Methodist Episcopal Church in Queens, N.Y., who, despite spending six terms as a Democratic member of Congress, endorsed Republican Rudy Giuliani for mayor of New York City. Flake, whose 10,000-member congregation supports an independent academy that offers an alternative to the area's lousy public...
...grandiloquence the Rev. Jesse Jackson maintains that "I've never seen such a wholesale machinery of disenfranchisement at work" as what occurred in Florida on this Election Day. It was, he says, "a 10 on a scale of 10" in the degree of voting-rights abuses, worse than Selma, Ala. Though that is an exaggeration, since no one was murdered for the right to vote in Florida during last week's balloting, as they were in Selma, Jackson has a point. In Florida, black college students came to the polls with their registration cards but were turned away because their...
...Rev. Peter J. Gomes Preacher to Harvard University and professor...
...emotional culmination of the festivities came when Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Plummer professor of Christian morals, talked eloquently and wittily about Lee Smith's great contributions to PBHA...
Gore aides attributed their Pennsylvania victory to an extensive get-out-the-vote effort, saying that the Rev. Jesse Jackson's appearances in Philadelphia helped them turn out large numbers of black voters...