Gardner C. Taylor, dean of black preachers, dies at 96
Gardner C. Taylor, widely considered the dean of the nation’s black preachers and “the poet laureate of American Protestantism,” died April 5. He was 96.
Carroll Baltimore, past president of the Progressive National Baptist Convention, confirmed that Taylor died on Easter.
“Dr. Taylor was a theological giant who will be greatly missed,” he said of the minister who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2000.
