african american clergy

Autobiography of the Reverend Al Sharpton in which he discusses his preaching, his activism on behalf of his race, and his recent resolve to quit trying to solve racial problems on a case by case basis and become proactive, entering the political arena.

Looks at the life of civil rights leader Al Sharpton.

"Martin Luther King, Jr., dedicated his life to bringing equal rights to African Americans through peaceful protest. Sometimes the cruelty of racists would test King's faith in the goodness of humankind. Sometimes a vicious death threat on the telephone in the middle of the night would weaken his resolve. However, King remained faithful to his dream of bringing equality to black people. In time, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s work changed the course of history. Although King was killed while he was still a young man, he helped bend "the arc of history" closer to justice."--Publisher.

Pastor Terrance Ellis has managed to avoid the well-meaning match making of his beloved three aunts, who believe Terrance must find a wife before the town's one-hundredth-year Christmas service, so when Terrance begins to fall for the seductive Savannah McKinney, his aunts move into overdrive to get the couple down the aisle.

As a young man, Sundrider was Bliss, an orphan taken in by Hickman and raised to be a preacher like himself. Bliss's history encompasses the joys of young Southern boyhood and bucolic days as a filmmaker.

Biracial Jesse Morgan struggles to be herself at an eastern college, while her mother, Thea, reunites with a former boyfriend, now minister, and finds that being a minister's wife in a small Arkansas town has issues of its own.

Tanya Black's perfect life begins to crumble when she finds out her husband is hiding a shocking secret.

A biography of activist minister Al Sharpton, discussing his defense of victims of racial violence, his attack by a knife-wielding assailant, and his political ambitions.