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The Black Church's role in civil rights activism today

In excerpts from a virtual town hall, New Destiny Christian Fellowship’s Rev. Horace Sheffield III talks about his father, community and labor leader Horace Sheffield Jr.’s significant role in the Detroit Walk to Freedom and how it influenced his own social activism. Plus, Henderson talks to Hopewell Church Senior Pastor Rev. Kenneth Pierce II about the next generation of civil rights leaders. Det

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