African American religion
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Meet Derrick Harkins, the Pastor Behind the Democratic Party’s Faith Outreach
CHARLOTTE — “Faith is an integral part of the Democratic Party,” the Reverend Derrick Harkins proclaimed Wednesday as he kicked off a panel on religion …
By Elizabeth Dias![](https://religionandpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/0607-Savage-BlackChurch-584x380-257x208.jpg)
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The Myth of the Black Church
My earliest ideas about African American religion and political struggle come from my first public memories as a child of the South of the late 1950s and 1960s.
By Barbara Dianne Savage