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Thrift and Uplift - News Oklahoma

July 5, 2018
A local nonprofit started by the Muslim faith community has opened a thrift store to generate funds to help the community's neediest residents. The Surayya Anne Foundation of Oklahoma City opened the store in March at 1143 N Meridian. The store is next door to a medical clinic in a small storefront near the corner of NW 10 and Meridian Avenue. On a recent weekday, DeBorah Boneta, the organization's executive director, worked to place newly donated items on the store's shelves with the help of her daughter, Courtney Boneta, and Becky Atiyeh, the...
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Partnership between African Methodist Episcopal Church and national Black banks - Religion News Service

July 2, 2018
Historically, the African Methodist Episcopal Church is known for being first. The first Protestant denomination formed on American soil, the first blacks to own property in the United States, the AME Christian Recorder, the first black newspaper, Wilberforce University, the first black college, and Hiram Revels, the first black United States Senator. We are now …
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