Antioch Baptist get new home, finds new friendships
When Antioch Baptist bought Arlington Avenue Church of God, the deal blossomed into a new friendship.
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When Antioch Baptist bought Arlington Avenue Church of God, the deal blossomed into a new friendship.
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In January, Charles Keith became a "professional abolitionist" against the death penalty, taking a job as a community liaison with the Death Penalty Action Network. The goal of the advocacy group started by Abraham Bonowitz and Scott Langley is to eliminate that form of punishment. The group argues the death penalty should be eliminated because too many innocent people have been wrongfully executed and that poor Black men in particular have been disproportionately penalized. About the Death Penalty Action Newtwork Bonowitz, a death penalty abolitionist since 1996, said the network was...
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 Ind...