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PROCTOR CONFERENCE; Reviving the Prophetic Role of Black Church
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Los Angeles Sentinel
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December 30, 2004
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Murray, Virgie W.
Los Angeles Sentinel
12-30-2004
The Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference was held recently in Minneapolis,
Minn. A stellar gathering of African American laypersons and theologians
attended the conference to rein-vigorate the social justice agenda of
America's Black churches.
Dr. Samuel DeWitt Proctor, the 20th century prophet of the Black church,
was a scholar, teacher, university president, public servant, Africanist,
mentor, family man and preacher. His life is one of uncompromised
faithfulness, theological integrity and informed social action.
"The conference was born with a claim to represent a paradigm shift
reflected by acts of reclamation and proclamation-a reclamation of the
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