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We had an Interesting day yesterday as we attended an auxiliary session of the combined National Baptist and Progressive National Baptist Conventions & CBF Billed as the ANGELA PROJECT !7, Commemorating the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first African Slave on this continent. The stated purpose was "to advance public Policy toward Preventing Blacks from becoming America's permanent underclass".

I believe they are off to a great start.

Suzii Paynter and several members of the CBF Executive Council where present and Suzii had prominent role in the program. Judge Wendell Griffen was one of the featured speakers as was Rev George Mason.

This Meeting was convened by Dr. Kevin Cosby President of Simmons College of Kentucky and Pastor of St. Stephens Baptist Church, both in Louisville.

Duplicate in Ed and Trudy thread.

Interesting. I assume the name "Angela" has some significance for being chosen as the event title?

Thanks.

When you say "combined National Baptist" conventions, do you mean not only the Progressives but both the Incorporated and the Unincorporated? How about the Missionary National Baptists?

JEP: And Jim there is a difference in Commemorating and celebrating.

Commemorate: to mark by some ceremony or observation. Celebrate: to mark (as an anniversary) by festivities or other deviation from routine (Merriam-Webster, 11th edition). Either way you cut it, the whole nine yards has to do with the oppression Baptists, particularly, allegedly keep applying to the black community. Rubbish!