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Farewell to Bob Edgar—Congressman, Minister, Activist
B ob Edgar was in his element on April 18. He stood behind a podium in Washington, D.C., making the case that the United States’ current …
By Renée K. Gadoua![](https://religionandpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/0806-Watt-AlabamaHB56-257x208.jpg)
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Alabama: A Son of the South Returns to the Heart of Dixie
A Son of the South Returns to the Heart of Dixie.
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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