MAYOR CONDEMNS ALABAMA PASTOR'S ANTI-GENTRIFICATION SIGN 'BLACK FOLKS STAY OUT OF WHITE CHURCHES'
Church leaders and the mayor denounced the racial “division” caused by a Birmingham, Alabama, pastor who put up a provocative sign reading “Black folks need to stay out of white churches" to fight gentrification.
New Era Baptist Church Pastor Michael R. Jordan told WBRC-TV he posted the sign in protest of Church of the Highlands—Alabama’s largest non-denominational, multicultural church—opening up a new branch for its more than 40,000 weekly worshippers nearby in Birmingham. On the reverse side of the sign outside the overwhelmingly African-American Cotton Avenue church, Jordan’s sign reads “White folks refused to be our neighbors.”
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