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What Americans hear about social justice at church – and what they do about it

  • Written by R. Khari Brown, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Wayne State University, Wayne State University
imagePolitics, social justice and faith come together each week in many religious leaders' sermons. AP Photo/Andrew Harnik

On June 5, 2020, it had been just over a week since a white Minnesota police officer, Derek Chauvin, killed George Floyd, an unarmed, African American man. Protests were underway outside Central United Methodist Church, an...

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