“For 8 minutes and 46 seconds George Floyd struggled to breathe as the oppressive knee of domination and dehumanization pressed down on his neck,” said Rev. Dr. Aidsand Wright-Riggins, Acting Executive Director of New Baptist Covenant. Wright-Riggins, who is also...
By Lindsay Bergstrom Hannah McMahan King, co-executive director of New Baptist Covenant, has finished a year-long transition process and completed her time with New Baptist Covenant on March 31 to pursue other career goals. “New Baptist Covenant has been a true...
By LIndsay Bergstrom “I wish you could all see yourselves.” That’s how Dr. David Anderson Hooker began his sermon as he took the pulpit on Sunday, Oct. 20, where congregants from two First Baptist churches in Macon — one black and the other white — came together to...
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice and the Legacy Museum, opening to the public on April 26, will become the nation’s first memorial dedicated to the legacy of enslaved black people, people terrorized by lynching, African Americans humiliated by racial...
It was a blustery day in our nation’s capitol, but that didn’t deter the thousands who joined together in a silent prayer walk to give witness of their commitment to continue the work of racial justice begun by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. It’s...
