CBS2’s Vanessa Murdock reports on the messages faith leaders are sending to their congregations today, as pleas to end racial injustice still ring around the world.
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Martin Luther King, Jr. penned a letter to his “fellow clergymen,” expressing his disappointment in the lack of support from white religious leaders during the civil rights movement more than 50 years ago.
CBS2’s Vanessa Murdock reports on the messages faith leaders are sending to their congregations, as pleas to end racial injustice still ring around the world.
Most Reverend Nicholas DiMarzio, bishop of Brooklyn, addressed the death of George Floyd and racism during his homily on Sunday.
“We must understand that societal change of the evil of racism must happen,” he said. “People are not born racist. It’s picked up by attitudes, feelings and words.”
The United Missionary Baptist Association of New York held a freedom march.
