SHREVEPORT, La. - Located at 1057 Texas Avenue you will find the oldest active African American church in Shreveport Antioch Baptist Church. Â
â73Â Black people came together, organized the first colored church,â said the Rev. Bruce Carroll, the current pastor who shared history of the church that dates to 1866.Â
Those members were honorably dismissed from First Baptist Church to start their own, according the Handbook of North Louisiana Online. In 2021, the church has about 75 members, very close to the original number. Â
âIt was designed that they could have a place to worship freely, in whatever manner that they chose,â said Carroll. âThe Avenue was full. It had Black businesses up and down the avenue. The people that came here were people of prominence, people of resources.â Â
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Then, Harding s husband looked at her. He had conviction in his eyes, she recalled. We have to get the vaccine because we are African Americans in the medical field, he said to her. That was my confirmation, Harding said.
Vaccine distrust
A disproportionate number of them are from minority communities.
Black Americans are 1.1 times more likely to contract COVID-19, nearly 3 times as likely to be hospitalized, and nearly twice as likely to die from the disease, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Hispanic and Latino individuals as well as American Indians and Alaskan natives also are disproportionately likely to be infected, hospitalized and killed by the coronavirus.
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This month, Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. takes viewers on a journey through the rich and complex evolution of The Black Church
to reveal how it has influenced nearly every chapter of the African American story and continues to animate Black identity today. We spoke with Reverend Irene Monroe and Reverend Emmett G. Price III, hosts of theAll Revâd Up
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