PASADENA : Black Churches Mount Effort to Get Jobs, Services
A group of black ministers, saying that all the elements of unrest that prompted the Los Angeles riots exist in black communities around Pasadena, announced Friday that their churches will act to attract jobs, housing, investment capital and other services to the area.
The Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance, representing 35 black churches in Pasadena and Altadena, will open an office and hire staff to “serve as a catalyst” for new social service programs, said the Rev. Coy L. Turrentine, the group’s president. Representatives of the Ecumenical Council of Greater Pasadena, a group of 38 churches that are mostly white and Latino, said their members would support the effort.
The black church leaders also called for the resignation of Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl F. Gates, and they announced an “Appealing for Healing” rally at 3 p.m. next Saturday at the Washington Middle School Auditorium, 1505 N. Marengo Ave., Pasadena.
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