Inclusive new artwork helps North Baltimore church atone for past that includes ties to slavery – Baltimore Sun

The members of a 180-year-old Baltimore church took a symbolic step Sunday toward facing and transcending what they recently discovered is their congregation’s own racist history, including ties to slavery.About 100 people at Govans Presbyterian Church in North Baltimore heard the Rev. Lea Gilmore, a longtime social-justice activist and gospel singer, as well as the…