Trayvon Martin

Rev. Al Sharpton, families of police shooting victims join march on Washington
By Adelle M. Banks — August 28, 2020
(RNS) — ‘I want this country to know that even with your brutality you can’t rob us of our dreams,’ the civil rights activist said.

Q&A: From Ferguson to Baltimore, black America’s faith is tested
By Adelle M. Banks — May 1, 2015
(RNS) "How do you have an unshattered faith in the face of the death of your son?" said the Rev. Kelly Brown Douglas. "That is what black faith has always been about."

Oklahoma pastors will preach in hoodies to protest proposed state bill banning hoods
By Greg Horton — January 16, 2015
OKLAHOMA CITY (RNS) “We do not have people roaming the streets in hoodies or masks committing crimes," said one pastor who planned to wear a hooded sweatshirt to church Sunday.

How adoption has forced evangelicals to grapple with race relations
By Sarah Pulliam Bailey — December 22, 2014
(RNS) “People who previously assumed that racial prejudice was back in the Jim Crow era are awakened by it with their own kids," said Southern Baptist leader Russell Moore.

’12 Years a Slave’ prompts calls for racial reconciliation
By Adelle M. Banks — October 15, 2013
WASHINGTON (RNS) “12 Years a Slave” may depict a bygone era in American history but religious leaders say it should spark increased attention about today's race relations.

COMMENTARY: A history of discrimination earns President Obama a right to speak
By Jeffrey Weiss — July 22, 2013
(RNS) Imagine that Joe Lieberman had been elected president. And that in a moment of crisis, he felt compelled to explain that some American Jewish support for Israel is partly explained by the Jewish cultural memory of the Holocaust. Would he be accused of whatever the Jewish equivalent of “race-baiting” might be?

COMMENTARY: Concealed handguns a form of white social control
By Mark I. Pinsky — July 15, 2013
(RNS) Part of the problem lies with with the lunatic -- and, I would argue, racist -- manner in which the Florida legislature has defined self-defense. You can start a fight for any reason, and if you begin to lose the altercation, and feel you are about to suffer grave body harm, you can kill the other person with totally immunity.

COMMENTARY: Preaching in the shadow of the Trayvon Martin verdict
By Dan Webster — July 15, 2013
BALTIMORE (RNS) So much of what Jesus says makes no sense to us. He continually urges his followers to overlook rules, customs, even laws in order to be brother and sister to one another.

Richard Land, controversial Southern Baptist leader, gets a new job
By David Gibson — April 12, 2013
(RNS) Richard Land, who is retiring from his longtime job as policy point man for the Southern Baptists after a series of controversies, will take over as head of an evangelical seminary in North Carolina.

Russell Moore tapped to lead Southern Baptists’ policy office
By Adelle M. Banks — March 26, 2013
(RNS) Russell Moore, the dean of theology at the Southern Baptist Convention’s flagship seminary, has been named the next president of the denomination’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission.

Southern Baptist leader Richard Land to retire after ethics probe
By Adelle M. Banks — August 1, 2012

(RNS) After nearly a quarter century as the Southern Baptist Convention's top public policy guru, Richard Land will step down in 2013 after a rough-and-tumble spring. By Adelle M. Banks. 

Southern Baptists’ Richard Land loses show, keeps job
By David Gibson — June 1, 2012

(RNS) A top Southern Baptist official who was accused of plagiarism while blasting civil rights leaders and President Obama for exploiting the Trayvon Martin case will lose his weekly radio show but can keep his job, a church panel announced Friday (June 1). By David Gibson. 700.

Southern Baptist heavyweight Richard Land in the fight of his life
By Bob Smietana — May 29, 2012

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (RNS) For the past 24 years, Richard Land has used his folksy charm and fiery rhetoric to become the public face of Southern Baptists. Now his future is in doubt, pending a probe of his remarks about the Trayvon Martin shooting and for alleged plagiarism. By Bob Smietana.

After meeting with black Southern Baptists, Richard Land apologizes again
By Adelle M. Banks — May 10, 2012

(RNS) Southern Baptist leader Richard Land has issued a longer public apology for his racially charged comments about the Trayvon Martin case and said he has sent a personal letter to President Obama asking for forgiveness. By Adelle M. Banks.

Southern Baptists to probe Richard Land’s Trayvon Martin remarks
By Adelle M. Banks — April 19, 2012

(RNS) Southern Baptist leaders say they will investigate whether their top ethicist and public policy director plagiarized racially charged remarks about the Trayvon Martin case that many have said set back the denomination's efforts on racial reconciliation. By Adelle M. Banks.

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