A weekend tweet from President Donald Trump in which he targeted "progressive Democrat congresswomen" by telling them to "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came," has drawn backlash within the Christian community.
Dr. Alveda King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Director of Civil Rights for the Unborn, has called on Senator and presidential candidate Kirsten Gillibrand of New York to rescind her previous statement comparing racism to abortion.
Southern Baptists, faced in recent months with hundreds of allegations of sexual abuse in its ranks, have overwhelmingly adopted changes to governing documents that will bring greater visibility to their desire to disaffiliate with churches that do not handle instances of abuse properly.
Democratic presidential candidate Kirsten Gillibrand compared opposition to abortion to racism in a new interview and said justices who hold either view should never be nominated to the courts.
Carrying the responsibility for a denomination that is dealing with the 12th consecutive year of decline would exhaust many leaders, but Greear believes that putting the gospel above anything else is what the convention needs to do.
Two Hoschton, Georgia politicians were asked to resign on Monday after making racist comments about a black job candidate.
The minute that Barbara Cross – a well-established black city civic leader – walked in the door, Senator Doug Jones – a white freshmen senator from Alabama – left his table to embrace and greet Cross.
After allegedly being attacked last month by two men who yelled “this is MAGA country,” investigators have obtained new information to suggest that “Empire” star Jussie Smollett staged his attack.
Virginia continues to deal with scandals engulfing its top three leaders. Gov. Ralph Northam is facing renewed calls to resign today over a racist photo in his 1984 medical school yearbook. Attorney General Mark Herring has admitted that he wore blackface at a college party in 1980.
Ralph Northam served eight years as a United States Army medical officer, then became a pediatric neurologist. He served in Virginia’s state Senate and as lieutenant governor before becoming governor earlier this year.
