'More Than Just Talk:' Black Southern Baptist Pastors Urge Racial Unity as SBC Elects First African American Chair

In a historic move, the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant denomination in the US, has elected an African American pastor to lead the group.  In a special meeting of the group's Executive Committee Wednesday, it was announced that Rev. Rolland Slade, senior pastor of Meridian Baptist Church in El Cajon, California had been tapped as the new head. 

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