Roland Martin talks with  Reverend Fred Luter, Jr. who has been elected as the first black President of the Southern Baptist Convention. The organization that has had the tarnished reputation of being a place for white supremecy, racism and segregation since the mid 1800s, made a decision to change their current course in history. Reverend […]

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Decades after scores of imminently qualified African-Americans first graced Fortune 1000 suites and four years after Barack Obama took up White House residency, the Southern Baptist Convention has elevated a black man to its highest elective office.     If the Rev. Fred Luter's election on Tuesday to the SBC's presidency shocked much of the […]

Reverend Fred Luter, Jr. has been elected as the first black President of the Southern Baptist Convention. The organization that has had the tarnished reputation of being a place for white supremecy, racism and segregation since the mid 1800s, made a decision to change their current course in history. Reverend Fred Luter, Jr. was unopposed […]

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A day after electing their first African-American president in a historic move that strives to erase its legacy of racism, Southern Baptists passed a resolution opposing the idea that same-sex marriage is a civil rights issue. Thousands of delegates at the denomination's annual meeting in New Orleans on Wednesday were nearly […]