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‘Chicago Pastor: This Week’s Violence Has Set Our Black Community Back Decades’
‘We worked tirelessly to turn around the city’s most violent neighborhood, only to see it burned and looted.’
Pastor Corey Brooks is the founder and Senior Pastor of New Beginnings Church of Chicago and founder and CEO of Project H.O.O.D Communities Development Corporation.
Read how, “The destructive violence, rioting, and looting of the last few days…have quickly erased years of our dialogue. Does his pointing this out make him a racist, or an opponent of black lives matter?
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