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Rev. Fred Luter, pastor of the Franklin Ave. Baptist Church in New Orleans, greets congregation members during Sunday services June 3, 2012. | AP Photo/Gerald Herbert
The Southern Baptist Convention holds its annual meeting in New Orleans next week and it could see the election of the Rev. Fred Luter as president. | AP Photo/Gerald Herbert
Four months ago, two African-American pastors stood in a hallway of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Nashville, Tenn., headquarters looking at a row of white faces. The portraits of the 56 convention presidents since the denomination’s 1845 founding are in large picture frames holding several portraits …
