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Print this article Voters line up to cast their election ballot at a Cobb County polling station in Marietta, Ga., October 13, 2020. (Elijah Nouvelage/Reuters) A group of black faith leaders representing more than 1,000 churches in Georgia will call for a boycott of Home Depot over the hardware store’s silence on the state’s new voting law. “We don’t believe this is simply a political matter,” Bishop Reginald T. Jackson, who is leading the effort, told the New York Times. “This is a matter that deals with securing the future of this democracy, and the great...

A large black church group in Georgia, representing over 1,000 churches, is now calling for a boycott of Home Depot because they haven’t pushed back against the new Georgia election law: NY TIMES – A major coalition of Black faith leaders in Georgia, representing more than 1,000 churches in the state, will call on Tuesday for a boycott of Home Depot, arguing that the company has abdicated its responsibility as a good corporate citizen by not pushing back on the state’s new voting law. The call for a boycott, led by Bishop Reginald T. Jackson, who oversees all 534 African Methodist Epis...

Georgia Faith Leaders to Call for Boycott of Home Depot over Voting Law Brittany Bernstein © Elijah Nouvelage/Reuters Voters line up to cast their election ballot at a Cobb County polling station in Marietta, Ga., October 13, 2020. A group of black faith leaders representing more than 1,000 churches in Georgia will call for a boycott of Home Depot over the hardware store’s silence on the state’s new voting law. “We don’t believe this is simply a political matter,” Bishop Reginald T. Jackson, who is leading the effort, told the New York Times. “This is a matter ...

Georgia Faith Leaders to Urge Boycott of Home Depot Over Voting Law Black religious leaders representing more than 1,000 churches in the state are planning a “warning shot” for other Republican-led states that are trying to limit voting access. Bishop Reginald T. Jackson is leading the push for a boycott of Home Depot in Georgia.Credit...Matt Odom for The New York Times April 20, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET A major coalition of Black faith leaders in Georgia, representing more than 1,000 churches in the state, will call on Tuesday for a boycott of Home Depot, arguing that the company has abdicated...

By Bob Wessel This is the final installment in a series of six articles on Christian churches founded in Lenawee County in the 19th century.  Methodism  The Methodist Episcopal churches, discussed in the first article in this series, gave rise to several later iterations of Methodism in the county — the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the Methodist Protestant Church, the Free Methodist Church, and, in the 20th century, the United Methodist Church.  August 1858 witnessed the organization of Bethel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Adrian in the home of Henry Russell. The con...