New generation of Black Church leaders rising to continue battle for justice

By Hazel Trice Edney
The Philadelphia Tribune
https://www.phillytrib.com/

It was on Nov. 24, 2014, when then Howard University student Kevin Lamár Peterman first felt a sermon rise from his belly.

That was the same day that a grand jury decided not to indict a white Ferguson, Missouri, police officer, Darren Wilson, in the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Mike Brown, an unarmed Black teenager walking down the street in his neighborhood. It was a police killing that sparked historic protests across America; including fiery demonstrations in Ferguson that were met with military force.

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Hazel Trice Edney is an award-winning veteran journalist, president/CEO of Trice Edney Communications and editor-in-chief of Trice Edney News Wire. She is former editor-in-chief of the National Newspaper Publishers Association News Service and Blackpressusa.com.