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Published February 21. 2021 12:01AM  By Lisa McGinley I wish you could hear the Rev. Florence Clarke preach. She intones. I wish you could see her, tall and imposing in her clerical robes, but not prideful. Humble. She doesn't waste your time or attention; she composes her sermons with a journalist's economy of words and a dramatist's flair for the surprise turn of a thought. "Why say 'elephant' when you can say 'ant'?" is a maxim with her. Florence Clarke turns 80 today. It is a joyous day for a woman who grew up in Klan territory in South Carolina and joined the Jim Crow protests of th...

New London — Rev. Joyce Pollard, pastor at In His Presence Ministries, said Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed more than 50 years ago and yet "what in the world happened that we are not further on with this being free?" In a powerful address Monday to a virtual audience during a community service remembering Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Pollard recognized the backdrop of political turmoil at the national level and a resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement inspired by the killing of George Floyd and other Black people at the hands of police. "Take a minute to think. How far have we...

Resolve in the face of adversity was a common theme at Monday’s service, which was was sponsored by the Southeastern Connecticut Ministerial