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NEWS ABOUT: Jeremiah Wright

Jeremiah Wright stories: 70 news summaries

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 Obama Calls for Racial Unity 

Mar 18, 08 10:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama tackled the issue of race in a candid and risky speech this morning, recounting America’s racial history and acknowledging both black anger and white resentment “we’ve never really worked through.” He denounced the divisive statements of his former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, saying they... More »

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Barack Obama • race • race relations • Jeremiah Wright

Obama Pastor Being 'Lynched,'
Faithful Say

Clerics defend 'righteous rage' of inflammatory preacher

Mar 18, 08 9:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - Black pastors and parishioners—including the 3,000 who packed Trinity Church in Chicago Sunday—are leaping to the defense of Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who's drawn a firestorm of criticism for his incendiary rhetoric on racism, the Washington Post reports. A pamphlet circulating the pews decried Wright’s treatment in... More »

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Barack Obama • race • religion • race relations • black culture • Jeremiah Wright

Obama Readies Major Speech
on Race

Will respond today
to furor over Wright's inflammatory remarks

Mar 18, 08 6:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama will deliver a major speech on race and politics in America in Philadelphia this morning. The candidate will address the racial issues that have dominated the campaign in recent days, fueled by the firestorm over the divisive remarks of Jeremiah Wright, Obama's former pastor. An aide told the... More »

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Barack Obama • race relations • Democratic presidential candidates • Jeremiah Wright • Election 2008

Firebrand Pastor Worried Obama Campaign Early

Aides uninvited Wright from Barack candidacy announcement

Mar 17, 08 10:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama’s campaign uninvited his controversial former pastor Jeremiah Wright from speaking at his candidacy announcement last year, reports the Los Angeles Times. The campaign didn’t want to "make him the target and a distraction on a day when Senator Obama was going to announce his candidacy,... More »

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Barack Obama • Michelle Obama • foreign policy • Jeremiah Wright • David Axelrod • Election 2008 • God Bless America • Trinity United Church of Christ

 Obama, Clinton
 Camps Spar on Records

'What is Sen. Clinton hiding?' asks spokesman

Mar 16, 08 8:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama took the day off, but their campaigns took time today to exchange fire on issues of disclosure and statements by disgraced staffers. In a conference call with reporters, the Obama campaign called on Clinton to release documents from her years in the Senate and from... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Clinton Presidential Library • Geraldine Ferraro • Jeremiah Wright • David Axelrod • tax records • Clinton Foundation

 Obama Campaign 
 Drops Rev. Wright

Minister prone to provocative statements will no longer advise the Illinois senator

Mar 15, 08 5:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - Jeremiah Wright, the militant Chicago minister and spiritual adviser to Barack Obama, is off the senator’s campaign, CNN reports. Wright will no longer sit on the senator’s African-American Religious Leadership Committee, the campaign announced. Obama has often said he rejects the reverend’s more incendiary opinions, especially his... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • religion • September 11 • huffingtonpost.com • Jeremiah Wright • Election 2008 • sermon

 Obama Preacher's 
 Words Keep Resurfacing

Inflammatory comments from past may haunt candidate

Mar 14, 08 11:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - In the latest campaign preacher flap, TV networks are airing clips from sermons in which the former pastor of Barack Obama's church condemns "racist" US society and compares the candidate's experiences to Jesus' struggles, the Guardian reports. "God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human,... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • politics • religion • presidential race • United Church of Christ • Jeremiah Wright • Election 2008 • pastor

Obama's Church Flouts Tax Law

Candidate's church offers praise from the pulpit, pans opponent

Mar 10, 08 2:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama's home church in Chicago may be risking its tax-exempt status by promoting the candidate in sermons. Churches are allowed to support specific causes, but not candidates, and some experts say the praise—and attacks on Hillary Clinton— violate IRS laws. "There does seem to be a pattern... More »

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Barack Obama • religion • Jeremiah Wright • Election 2008 • churches

OPINION

Obama Pastor
Faulted for
Farrakhan Rave

Incensed scribe cries racism; candidate deplores same

Jan 15, 08 4:38 PM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama’s controversial pastor is back in the press—and the blogosphere—this time for praising Louis Farrakhan in an issue of the church's magazine, calling him "an unforgettable force, a catalyst for change and a religious leader who is sincere about his faith and his purpose."... More »

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Barack Obama • racism • civil rights • Nation of Islam • Jeremiah Wright • Louis Farrakhan • Richard Cohen • Jewish • anti-Semitism • Election 2008

How Barack Found Jesus

Candidate chose Christianity over
mom's humanism,
dad's Islam

Apr 30, 07 1:32 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Times retraces Barack Obama's peripatetic path to the Christianity he embraced 20 years ago and now invokes as he presents his presidential campaign in nothing short of biblical terms. Obama's mother was an anthropologist who schooled her son in the variety of religious experiences; his father's family in Kenya... More »

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Barack Obama • Christianity • presidential campaign • religion • Jeremiah Wright • Election 2008

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