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"And from my perspective, life is theology and theology is life whichever way you cut it."

The author's life has been blessed by her singular talents and her religious convictions. Growing up in Mississippi and Tennessee, she was one of thirteen children and the first of her brood to finish high school. She would go on to complete college and later attain both a master's degree and a doctorate. The chain of events that led to her successes has its beginnings in the uproar of the mid-1960s civil rights movement. A college student during the early rumblings of that era, she had an awakening when Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated in her home city. King's life and murder provoked her to join in his struggle, sustained by her connection to the A.M.E. Zion Church, with its legendary members Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth. She began to work with those demanding grassroots change as civil rights issues escalated to the critical stage of black power and pride....

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