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My Vote is Sacred was first anchored and organized by a contingent of Georgia faith leaders, including
AME Georgia Bishop Reginald Jackson;
Rev. Dr. Cynthia Hale, founder and Senior Pastor of the Ray of Hope Christian Church;
Rev. Dr. Bernice King, CEO, The King Center;
Reverend Timothy McDonald III, Senior Pastor of the First Iconium Baptist Church, founder of the African American Ministers Leadership Council, and President of the African American Ministers In Action of People for the American Way;
Dr. Jamal Bryant, Senior Pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church; and
Reverend Lee May, Lead Pastor at Transforming Faith Church. Earlier this year, Republican Governor Brian Kemp made Georgia the first state in the country to sign into law legislation explicitly aimed at making it less likely for people of color to vote. In the weeks that have followed, Republican-elected leaders from around the country have proposed or passed voter suppression bills in forty-seven
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EDITORIAL | A mother holds the knife by the blade, indeed Mother’s Day is the one day in the year we should press pause to appreciate the mothers in our nation where life is not always easy 09 May 2021 - 18:53
The Sunday Times recently published an article by Panashe Chigumadzi on Charlotte Maxeke, titled, “Our debt to Charlotte Maxeke: 150 years after her birth, she’s still our mother”. She is celebrated as a mother figure to the struggle, one of the highest compliments one can attribute to a woman.
Chigumadzi cites several mother idioms in the piece. She also talks about Reshoketswe Mosuwe, the president of the Women’s Missionary Society (WMS), known as the “manyano”. Chigumadzi writes: “Across Southern Africa, amaManyano, the ‘mothers’ unions’ of our churches, are one of our most important social institutions. It is here that our mothers hold us up for prayer. It is here that our mothers hold each other. It is here that our mothers cry. It
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The first Presbyterian Church in the Lucknow community was South Kinloss, which was built in 1856 on the east side of Bruce County Road about a mile and a half north of Lucknow. Murdoch MacKenzie heard that someone was planning to buy the land on Conc. 2 in order to build a tavern where the current church stands. Murdoch gathered some members of the congregation and in a month, they were able to make up the 10% initial payment of $15 for the land. The tavern was never built but, in 1863, a large frame building that could seat 300 people was erected. The current brick church was finished in 1912 and the opening service was held on May 24 that year.