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Obstacles remain as women seek more leadership roles in America’s Black Church

Obstacles remain as women seek more leadership roles in America’s Black Church

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(AP) – No woman had ever preached the keynote sermon at the Joint National Baptist Convention, a gathering of four historically Black Baptist denominations representing millions of people. That changed in January when the Rev. Gina Stewart took the convention stage in Memphis, Tennessee, — the Southern city home to Christ Missionary Baptist Church where she serves as senior pastor — and delivered a rousing message, asserting that Jesus not only included women in his ministry, but identified with their suffering. But what happened next put a spotlight on the obstacles women in Christian ministry continue to face as they carve out leadership space within the patriarchal culture of the Black Church in America. Several women pastors told The Associated Press that it should serve as the breaking point. “This is an example of no matter how high you rise as a woman, you’re going to meet patriarchy at the top of the hill,” said Martha Simmons, founder of Women of Color in Ministry, which helps women navigate the process of getting ordained. “The next …

Ghanaian Photographer Gerald Annan-Forson Comes Into Focus

Ghanaian Photographer Gerald Annan-Forson Comes Into Focus

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When Queen Elizabeth II arrived in Ghana in 1999 on an official visit, the British High Commission called Gerald Annan-Forson about photographing the monarch in a private session. Years beforehand, Annan-Forson had developed a habit of standing before Buckingham Palace with the dream of taking images of the queen or the royal family someday. The Commission’s request came as a surprise. “I said, ‘Well, wait a minute. She’s coming with all these pressmen. Why me?’” he recounted, speaking to ARTnews from Accra, the capital of the West African country, in a recent interview. “They said, ‘Well, we have been watching you. We’ve selected you from within Ghana.’” Related Articles That they selected him at all speaks to the “important role” he played in capturing Ghana, particularly Accra, as the center of various global artistic and political changes, said Jesse Weaver Shipley, a professor of African and African American studies at Dartmouth College. Shipley and Annan-Forson first met in 2017 through an introduction by the late former president of Ghana, Flight Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings, who had spoken …

5 Questions With Dr. Hugh Mighty on Diversity and Health Care | Healthiest Communities Health News

5 Questions With Dr. Hugh Mighty on Diversity and Health Care | Healthiest Communities Health News

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Key Black leaders in health care converged in the nation’s capital this week to take part in a two-day summit focused on health equity, examining how approaches are evolving to meet the needs of vulnerable communities and how executives can address hurdles and headwinds standing in the way of meaningful change. Among the summit’s participants was Dr. Hugh Mighty, senior vice president for health affairs at Howard University – one of the few historically Black colleges and universities in the U.S. with a medical school. U.S. News & World Report caught up with Mighty – an OB-GYN with extensive experience in medical higher education – to discuss the current state of efforts to improve diversity, equity and inclusion within health care, as well as the direction those efforts need to go. The interview below has been edited for length and clarity. Michael Robinson Chavez|The Washington Post|Getty Images Dr. Hugh Mighty receives a coronavirus vaccine at Howard University Hospital in 2020 in Washington, D.C. What would you say is the greatest challenge in the effort to …

How Reconstruction Created American Public Education

How Reconstruction Created American Public Education

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Before the Civil War, America had few institutions like Antioch College. Founded in Yellow Springs, Ohio, in 1850, Antioch was coed and unaffiliated with any religious sect; it was also the first college in the nation to hire a woman to serve on its faculty as an equal with her male colleagues. It was unquestionably progressive, and would not have been that way without its first president: Horace Mann. Mann, the politician and education reformer from Massachusetts, sought to mold a certain kind of student: conscientious, zealous, inquisitive. For years, Mann had opposed slavery; he hoped his students would as well. He charged those he taught at Antioch to dedicate themselves to eradicating injustice with sedulous care. “Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity,” Mann told the graduating class of 1859. Explore the December 2023 Issue Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read. View More Mary D. Brice was one of Mann’s students at Antioch, and she was a true believer in Mann’s vision. …