Correspondent
YOUNGSTOWN Despite numerous unexpected challenges 2020 presented to many area businesses, groups and faith-based organizations, the Mahoning Valley Association of Churches managed to end the year slightly in the black.
“Our financial situation was similar to how it began in 2020, despite difficulties due to the pandemic,” MVAC’s outgoing president, the Rev. Ted Brown, said during Thursday’s virtual annual board meeting.
Specifically, the Christian-based organization saw a $397 surplus, as it began last year with an $8,398 budget and closed out 2020 with $8,795, Brown noted. The budget finishing in the black was mainly courtesy of contributions from MVAC’s church-member organizations, the Youngstown Foundation, online donations and funds from board members and others, said Thomas D. Sauline, executive director.
Correspondent
YOUNGSTOWN Throughout the 1960s, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. recognized how fluid, evolutionary and transformational the civil rights movement was and, many people contend, had the wisdom to adopt and shift his strategies with it for achieving a more just society.
For example, it was one thing for black people to gain the right to sit at what had been whites-only lunch counters, but another for them to have greater economic power to afford what was being served.
The movement continues to evolve today to include tackling disparities in access to health care and education, as well as unequal treatment by police, many say.