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Matters of Faith: What It Means To Be Free!

Matters of Faith: What It Means To Be Free!

By Rev. J. Loren Russell Acts 5:26-29 NKJV Then the captain went with the officers and brought them without violence, for they feared the people, lest they should be stoned. And when they had brought them, they set them before […]

by · July 3, 2022 · Matters of Faith, Religion
HE HAS A PLAN

HE HAS A PLAN

Rev. J. Loren Russell Genesis 35:11 “Also God said to him: “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall proceed from you, and kings shall come from your body.’” As Black History […]

by · February 27, 2022 · Matters of Faith, Religion
Matters of Faith: Liberty for All

Matters of Faith: Liberty for All

By Reverend J. Loren Russell Leviticus 25:9-10 NKJV “Then you shall cause the trumpet of the Jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement you shall make the trumpet to sound throughout […]

by · June 20, 2021 · Matters of Faith, Religion
Emancipation Proclamation

Emancipation Proclamation

January 1, 2018 Monday, January 1st. For Americans in 1863, this day was not one especially suited to a greeting of “Happy New Year.” But in a nation riven by Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln used the occasion of the […]

by · January 1, 2018 · History, News, Profile America

Vernuccio’s View: 21st Century Slavery

Modern slavery exists, it is widespread, and it is a worldwide, lucrative practice. A National Geographic study found “There are more slaves today than were seized from Africa in four centuries of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The modern commerce in humans rivals […]

by · September 27, 2017 · Op Ed, Vernuccio's View

Celebrate Juneteenth This Weekend

The Juneteenth holiday is Sunday, June 19, and it commemorates the official end of slavery in 1865.

Black History Month: Slave Trade & The Middle Passage

Black History Month: Slave Trade & The Middle Passage

Portuguese traders built sub-Saharan Africa’s first permanent slave trading post at Elmina in 1492. It passed into Dutch and English hands and by the 18th century they shipped tens of thousands of Africans a year through ‘the door of no […]

by · February 25, 2015 · History