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I talked with Reverend Raphael Warnock and Eddie Glaude, Jr., two prominent African-American religious thinkers, about the role of black churches in the wake of major protests and demonstrations<\/a> inspired by events in Ferguson<\/a> and New York City<\/a>. Warnock is the senior pastor at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Ga. \u2014 a pulpit once held by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. \u2014 and was in Washington to attend a conference hosted by the Black Church Center for Justice and Equality. Glaude is a professor of religion and chair of the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University. In 2010, he wrote an attention-grabbing essay called \u201cThe Black Church is Dead.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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