John Lewis and the masks Black preachers wear on the public stage
- Written by Kenyatta R. Gilbert, Professor of Homiletics, Howard University
Rep. John Lewis attends church services at Brown Chapel AME Church in SelmaBrooks Kraft LLC/Corbis via Getty Images
U.S. Congressman John Robert Lewis was a Black preacher, inescapably so.
Like his spiritual mentor, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the long-standing congressman was an ordained Black Baptist minister. It meant that he not only...
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