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Black Baptist group renews historic calls for civil rights | Afro

By Peter Smith The Associated Press The Progressive National Baptist Convention this week marked the 60th anniversary of its forging in the heat of the civil rights movement, citing its founders as inspiring new calls for racial justice, against voter suppression and in favor of critical race theory. The historically Black denomination held a virtual […]

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