A conversation with the producer/director of the PBS documentary The Black Church
Century community engagement editor Katara Patton interviews Stacey L. Holman
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Innovative Christian publisher Melvin E. Banks dies at 86
Melvin E. Banks, founder of Urban Ministries, Inc., died on February 13. He was 86.
In 1970, UMI—the largest, independent, Black-owned Christian publishing company in the country—pioneered the practice of creating contextualized images of Black people in the Bible.
“So many people have been introduced to the life-changing message of Jesus because of Dr. Banks’ ground-breaking initiatives,” said Terri Hannett, UMI’s vice president in a statement.