About the Author

Frederick D. Haynes III is Senior Pastor of Friendship-West
Baptist Church in Dallas and Executive Secretary of the
Evangelism Board of the National Baptist Convention.

Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. is Senior Pastor of Trinity United
Church of Christ, Chicago. Among his books is Africans Who
Shaped Our Faith (1995).

Iva E. Carruthers is Professor of Sociology at Northeastern
Illinois University, Chicago. She is the author of The Church
and Reparations (2001).