DECATUR — Greater Mount Olive Baptist Church will be hosting a Revival on Tuesday, March 29, Wednesday, March 30 and Thursday, March 31. Services begin at 7 p.m. each night
Oklahoman
A group of Black preachers and community leaders from the metro area said they walked away disappointed after a recent meeting with Gov. Kevin Stitt about a controversial critical race theory bill.
The Rev. A. Byron Coleman III, senior pastor of Fifth Street Baptist Church, said he and other ministers and leaders affiliated with predominantly Black congregations urged Stitt on Wednesday to veto House Bill 1775. HB 1775 moves us further from progress and reconciliation, the clergy leaders said in a news release.
The Rev. Derrick Scobey requested the meeting with the governor after a metro minister, the Rev. Tony Rhone, senior pastor of Galilee Baptist Church in Shawnee, asked him to see whether Stitt would be willing to discuss the bill in person.
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A Minnesota jury found former police officer Derek Chauvin guilty on all counts in the murder of George Floyd last May.
Chauvin, 45, was found guilty of second- and third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.
The judge revoked bail and told Chauvin to report back in eight weeks for sentencing. Chauvin was handcuffed and taken into custody.
The former officer, who is white, was seen on video pinning George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, to the ground with his knee last Memorial Day for over nine minutes after police responded to a report that Floyd used a counterfeit $20 bill.
Cell phone video of the incident went viral and touched off months of protests in the U.S. and abroad condemning police brutality and calling for racial justice.