Sermon Illustrations about Black History Month
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Improperly Seized Property Returned to Family of Original Owners
Back in 1912, Willa and Charles Bruce were one of the first African-American landowners in Los Angeles County after purchasing a plot of oceanside property ...
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Principal Cuts Student's Hair to Remedy His Insecurity
Many middle-school boys have memories of barbershop haircuts. But for one boy, his most memorable cut happened elsewhere. Anthony Moore is a student at ...
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A Tale of Two Families, Two Racisms
In 1957, my parents moved into Levittown, Pennsylvania. It was a brand-new suburban community and these homes were finally at a price that Army veterans ...
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Revival at the Corner Where George Floyd Was Killed
Many are calling it sacred ground--38th Street and Chicago Avenue--the site where George Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis police officer. The intersection ...
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What Fame Cannot Do
Paul Louis Metzger writes:
My greatest living hero is Dr. John M. Perkins, an African American evangelical Christian and civil rights leader nearly beaten ...
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Thousands of Black Gospel Records Saved from Obscurity
For the last dozen years, in the basement of a university library in Waco, Texas, a small team of audio engineers has been busy trying to save black gospel ...
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Human 'Computer' Honored in NASA Facility Renaming
A NASA facility in West Virginia was recently renamed in honor of West Virginia native Katherine Johnson, who played a pivotal role in the first US mission ...
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Prosecutor-Turned-Novelist Scorned for Miscarriage of Justice
Former prosecutor Linda Fairstein is facing a barrage of criticism for the way she handled her most infamous case. This resulted in several African American ...
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Air Force Academy Head Challenges Racism on Campus
After racial slurs were scrawled outside black students' doors at the US Air Force Academy's preparatory school, Superintendent Lt. Gen. Jay Silveria ...
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The Resurrection Proved its Power among African Americans
A recent (2018) article in Christianity Today traces how early African American Christianity proved the power of the Resurrection against oppression.
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