Covenant of Action partners First Baptist Church and NextGen Church of Trenton, N.J., are working together to lead an after school program at a local school in on of the lowest performing districts in the state of New Jersey. Their aim is to raise academic performance...
WASHINGTON — New Baptist Covenant has worked since its founding to advance racial justice in and through our Baptist family through creating cross-cultural and multi-racial partnerships. The organization is proud to announce its next step in modeling these...
Whether we hear the words “race matters” as a declarative statement or the introduction to a list of things that are impacted by race, we can’t deny that all of us have life experiences that have shaped our beliefs and actions about race. When we can recognize our...
By Julie Pennington-RussellOn a frigid Saturday morning in February, some fifty women, men and children from First Baptist Church here in Washington, D.C., where I serve as pastor, and from Nineteenth Street Baptist Church, led by the Rev. Dr. Darryl Roberts—two...
Former President and CEO of the NAACP Cornell Brooks was the keynote speaker at the 34th Martin Luther King Jr. Community Celebration in Charlottesville, Va, hosted by the 50-member Charlottesville Clergy Collective and NBC Covenant of Action partners New Beginnings...