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New generation of Black Church leaders rising to continue battle for justice

By Hazel Trice Edney
The Philadelphia Tribune
https://www.phillytrib.com/

Pastor Kevin Lamár Peterman, 32, speaks to the congregation of Nineteenth Street Baptist Church after being robed to lead the historic Washington church. He represents the next power move for social justice in the U.S.
—NINETEENTH STREET BAPTIST CHURCH PHOTO

It was on Nov. 24, 2014, when then Howard University student Kevin Lamár Peterman first felt a sermon rise from his belly.

That was the same day that a grand jury decided not to indict a white Ferguson, Missouri, police officer, Darren Wilson, in the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Mike Brown, an unarmed Black teenager walking down the street in his neighborhood. It was a police killing that sparked historic protests across America; including fiery demonstrations in Ferguson that were met with military force.

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Hazel Trice Edney is an award-winning veteran journalist, president/CEO of Trice Edney Communications and editor-in-chief of Trice Edney News Wire. She is former editor-in-chief of the National Newspaper Publishers Association News Service and Blackpressusa.com.

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