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The North Star with Shaun King

Race, Faith, and Politics in the Southern Baptist Convention

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May 19, 2019
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After the 2015 slaying of nine congregants at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina by a white supremacist who previously posed with a Confederate flag, the majority-white Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), one of the largest evangelical denominations in the US, passed a resolution the following year to stop members from displaying the fl…

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