Th e late Rev. Dr. Samuel DeWitt Proctor was Pastor Emeritus of the Abyssinian Baptist Church of New York City and Professor Emeritus at Rutgers University. Dr. Proctor was President of Virginia Union University, Richmond, VA and North Carolina A&T State University. He held administrative positions with the Peace Corps in Nigeria and Washington, D.C. and the National Council of Churches. He was Pastor-In-Residence for the Institute for Child Advocacy at Children’s Defense Fund/Haley Farm. He was awarded honorary doctorate degrees from more than 50 colleges and universities. Dr. Proctor was a prolifi c writer and preacher, authoring We Have Th is Ministry, How Shall Th ey Hear, and Sermons from the Black Pulpit, among many other books and articles.

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SDPC Representatives at the 59th Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women in New York (March 2015)

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2015 SDPC Board Retreat at Whitney Plantation,Wallace, Louisiana

SDPC Rev. Starsky Wilson and Rev. Traci Blackmon on the line with Cornel West and youth activists at the one year observance of Michael Brown’s death, Ferguson, Missouri

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SDPC with FM Supreme and anti-violence rally,Chicago, IL (August 2015)

SDPC board members, Carruthers and Wright join planning meeting of the National African American Reparations Commission (NAARC), along with Commissioners from Canada, the Caribbean, Central South America, Europe and Nova Scotia who attended the International Summit in New York.

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Rev. Wright, Rev. Mendez andRev. Barber at the Mass Moral Monday

March & Rally for Voting Rights,Winston-Salem, NC (July 2015)

Dr. Carruthers with Youth Peace Movement conveners and attendees at Chicago Theological

Seminary, Chicago, Illinois

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Kairos USA - Dr. Iva Carruthers and others with Civil Rights icon Rev. C. T. Vivian at Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia

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SDPC Drs. Boesak and Wright, representatives at the International Black Theology Conference at The University of South Africa

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UN INTERNATIONAL DECADE FOR PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT 2015-2024The Black Church Archive and Historical Marker Project (BCAHM – pronounced “B-Cam”)

Weeks Of Righteous Resistance (WORR) #THISISWORR

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QuickFacts(sdpconference.info)

SDPC Millennial Leadership Retreat and

Sacred Pilgrimage to Antioch Baptist Church,

Whitney Plantation, Wallace, Louisiana

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Multifaith Dialogue, Transatlantic Roundtable on Religion and Race, London, England

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Planning Session for 2016 UN Meeting

Rev. Waltrina Middleton, an Addie

Wyatt-William “Bill” Lucy Fellow, in

Palestine

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Wyatt-Lucy Labor and Justice InstituteAddie Wyatt and Dr. William “Bill” Lucy Fellowship

2015 Fellowship Awardees:

Tiana BoydJessica DisuIsha HaileyJazmin Hall

Chaka Holley

Doria JohnsonWaltrina Middleton

Taurean WebbJamila Wright

SDPC on Set fi lming - From Ferguson to Palestine:A Global Journey to Justice

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2015 Special Program Partners

Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference, Inc.Board of Trustees

Rev. Traci BlackmonChrist the King United Church of Christ ~ St. Louis, MO

Rev. Dr. Valerie BridgemanMethodist Th eological School in Ohio ~ Delaware, OH

Rev. Dr. Marcus D. CosbyWheeler Avenue Baptist Church ~ Houston, TX

Rev. Martin L. EspinosaRay of Hope Community Church ~ Nashville, TN

Rev. Dr. James A. Forbes, Jr.Healing of the Nations Foundation ~ New York, NY

Hon. Rev. Wendell L. GriffenNew Millennium Church ~ Little Rock, AR

Dr. Forrest E. Harris, Sr.American Baptist College ~ Nashville, TN

Bishop Gregory IngramPresiding Prelate, 1st Dist. AME Church

~ Philadelphia, PA

Tyra MarianiWashington, DC

Rev. Dr. Earl B. Mason, Sr.Bible-Based Fellowship Church of Temple Terrace

~Tampa, FLRev. Dr. Michael Pfleger

Community of Saint Sabina Church ~ Chicago, IL

Rev. Dr. Joe Samuel RatliffBrentwood Baptist Church ~ Houston, TX

Rev. Dr. William Marcus SmallNew Calvary Baptist Church ~ Norfolk, VA

Rev. Dr. Gina M. StewartChrist Missionary Baptist Church ~ Memphis, TN

Rev. Anthony L. Trufant Emmanuel Baptist Church ~ Brooklyn, NY

Ms. Robin P. WilliamsUnited Food and Commercial Workers

~ Washington, DC

Rev. Starsky D. WilsonSaint John’s Church ~ St. Louis, MO

Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr.Th e Grace of God, NFP ~ Chicago, IL

Dr. Iva E. CarruthersGeneral Secretary

SDPC, Inc.Chicago, IL

Rev. Dr. Frederick D. Haynes, IIIChairperson - SDPC, Inc.

Friendship-West Baptist ChurchDallas, TX

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