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Liberty University in Virginia an­nounced on August 10 that its board had chosen an interim president to lead the school days after Jerry Falwell Jr. began an indefinite leave of absence after one of his posts on social media created an uproar.

Jerry Prevo, who has served as chairman of the school’s board of trustees since 2003 and recently retired as the senior pastor of a Baptist church in Alaska, assumed the role of acting president immediately, Liberty said in a news release.

This spring, Ivy Taylor became the first woman to lead Rust College, a United Methodist liberal arts school in Holly Springs, Mis­sis­sip­pi. The col­lege, where journalist and antilynching activist Ida B. Wells- Barnett matriculated, is one of the oldest historically black colleges in the nation.

Voters in at least two states will have the opportunity to vote for former pastor Mark Charles in November. On Au­gust 10, the independent presidential candidate—a dual citizen of the United States and the Navajo nation—announced via Twitter that he would be on the ballot in both Vermont and Colorado.

Former vice president Joe Biden’s campaign team has hired Aaron Keyak, former head of the National Jewish Democratic Council, to oversee Jewish outreach.

Keyak, who called the 2020 contest “the most important election of our lifetimes,” boasts a background in Democratic politics.

A Southern Bap­tist pastor who gave an invocation at a celebration honoring the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan stepped down from his rural Alabama church in late July.

Will Dismukes, who is also a Re­pub­lican state representative for the city of Prattville, 14 miles northwest of Montgomery, boasted on a Facebook page that he participated at an annual birthday party for Con­federate general Nathan Bedford Forrest, a prominent figure in southern history.

On July 20, a Rus­sian court or­dered Father Sergiy, an influential monk who has denied the existence of the new corona­virus and urged his followers to ignore government lockdown orders, to pay a fine for fo­menting enmity through his sermons.