![]() ![]() ![]() This horrific event was the nadir of the Civil Rights Movement. This year’s conference took place at the historic 16th Street Baptist Church, where four girls were killed in September 1963 by an explosion of dynamite planted at the church by four Ku Klux Klansmen in an act of white supremacist terrorism. Named after the first enslaved African who was brought to the shores of colonized America, for the last three years the conference has been an annual event leading up to this year’s 400th anniversary of black enslavement in America (1619–2019). None of us like it, but sometimes we all need horny-headed catfish in our lives to keep us fresh, alert, and active.Ī horny-headed catfish was dropped in my emotional pen last week in Birmingham, Alabama, as I led the Cooperative Baptist Convention in The Angela Project Conference established by Simmons College of Kentucky. ![]() The presence of this predator kept the fish fresh, alert and active. Cosbyīefore the days of refrigeration, fishermen in Labrador, Canada, would keep their catch from the Atlantic Ocean alive and fresh for market by placing a horny-headed catfish in the holding pen with the fish. ![]()
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