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ABOUT DR. REYNOLDS
The Reverend Dr. Barbara A. Reynolds is an award- winning journalist, activist and educator. She has more than 50 years of experience as a journalist/writer with some of the major media institutions in America, such as Ebony magazine, Essence Magazine, The Chicago Tribune and Playboy magazine. In addition, she was a Founding Start-Up Editor with USA Today where she was an editorial board member and columnist for more than 13 years. She has served as religion columnist for the National Newspaper Publishers Association, which reports a readership of 10 million. She was also an activist in the King Movement helping to register blacks to vote in 1965.
Reynolds is author of seven books, including NO I Won’t Shut Up: 30 years of Telling It Like It is; Out of Hell and Living Well, Healing From the Inside Out; Doing Good in the Hood, the Life, Legacy and Leadership of Bishop Alfred Owens; Jesse Jackson, the Man, the Myth and the Movement; And Still We Rise: Interviews with 50 Black Role Models. Her recently published memoirs of Coretta Scott King, My Life, My Love, my Legacy is a New York Times Bestseller and on April 4, 2018, she was cited by Time Magazine as one of the top historians in the country.
In 2018, her Coretta Book project took her on a tour to the UK where she spoke in Parliament in the Palace of Westminster March 14, 2018.; On March 19, 2018 at the University College of, London hosted by The UCL Culture & Institute of the Americas and at the University of Birmingham, Cadbury Centre for the Public Understanding of Religion.
The Coretta Book earned her many accolades:
Named a Washington Post Book to Read
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
A USA Today “New and Noteworthy” Pick
A Read It Forward Favorite Read
A Parade Magazine Pick
A Publishers Weekly “Notable African-American Titles”
Time Magazines’ celebration of MLK week
Recently she was a columnist for the Washington Post Newspaper and presently writes for the Informer Newspaper and the Trice-Edney Wire Service. She is also chaplain for Black Women for Positive Change, a national progressive civil rights and humanitarian network and has for 20 years presided over the Harriets, a spirit-led mentoring movement at Greater Mt. Calvary Holy Church in Washington DC. The ministry is named after Harriet Tubman, the famed former slave who helped lead hundred of slaves to freedom.
In 2014, she was inducted into the Board of Preachers at Morehouse College, for her exemplary work emulating the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., one of Morehouse’s most distinguished graduates.
Reynolds is also an educator. In 2009 she directed the Honors Program and taught journalism at Central State College in Wilberforce, Ohio. She has held the Jessie Ball DuPont Chair in Journalism at Shenandoah University in Winchester, VA and was a Freedom Forum Scholar for the 1997 school year in journalism at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee and has taught journalism at the Howard University School of Communications. She has taught prophetic ministry at the Howard University School of Divinity and the Black Presence in the Bible and Eschatology at the Calvary Bible Institute. She is one of 12 founders of the Kingdom Building Equipping School headquartered in Norfolk, VA and teaches on eschatology (the end times) online. IN 2019, she introduced a new curriculum at the Calvary Bible Institute in Washington DC: TECHNOLOGY: Highway to Heaven or Pathway to Hell?
Born in Columbus, OH, she received her BA in journalism from The Ohio State University, her master’s degree from Howard University School of Divinity in 1992 and her Doctorate in Ministry from the United Theological Seminary in Dayton, OH in 1998. She also has been awarded honorary doctorates in humane letters from Shenandoah University and her alma mater, Ohio State University. Bishop Alfred A. Owens, Jr. ordained her an elder at the Greater Mt. Calvary Holy Church in 1995.
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The Olympics: A Victory for the Human Race

When we first think of the Olympics, we think pride for our country and athletes. However, there is a deeper meaning behind the Olympics that we can all learn from.Read More…

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Listen to The Young People

For those who care about the direction of the Black Church, listen to the young

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A Witness to The Face Of Jesus

I believe in miracles and this experience enhanced my understanding as  I was allowed to participate in such a glorious event. I also took others from the East Coast with me to see this event.

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Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson White House Event 2022

I was in the miraculous moment at the White House for the celebration of Judge

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Ai-Da The Painting Robot

Robots are steadily encroaching on our lives. I have learned that this robot has sold

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WHY WE NEED A TRUSTED BLACK ATTY. GENERAL.

US Gov’t Found Guilty In Conspiracy To Assassinate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

In my book, The Life, Love and Legacy of Coretta King, she said, “On April 4, 1968, I felt my heart was ripped apart. This was the trail of the century, but the trial of O.J. Simpson was covered by thousands, only a very few carried this trial. If such a crime and cover-up could happen to a man of my husbands’ stature with no consequences, it could happen again. And I want everyone to be aware of what we know”. You can read the report for yourself on line and also read the report of the U.S. Justice Department, who of course, denounced it.

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Oscars 2022: Celebrate Black Achievements Not the Slap

Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars was seen around the world, making

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Overcoming Fear

I have been fighting this practically all my life and each step I take in faith the stronger I get. Last week fear rose up in me almost overwhelming. I was told I had to take an MRI because they had a spot on my liver. Ironically, I didn’t fear bad news about the spot because I knew God would handle it, but somehow the thought of getting in a tube and being locked in with mechanical sounds pounding in my ear just filled me with anxiety.

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NAACP is Giving Devil Worshiping Lil NasX an Image Award

I heard that some of the acclaim from Little Nasty is because he is contributing money to black causes. If that is true, well those groups who are in line for the dough should understand no matter how much Little Nasty is dropping in their pockets, he is doing much more harm deconstructing our image as sane and moral human beings.

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The Olympics: A Victory for the Human Race

When we first think of the Olympics, we think pride for our country and athletes. However, there is a deeper meaning behind the Olympics that we can all learn from.

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MLK JR 2021 Celebration at FSU

Barbara Speaks: FSU honors the legacy with 33rd Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Week

Florida State University will honor the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. during its 33rd Annual MLK Week from Monday, Jan. 18, through Friday, Jan. 22. The weeklong celebration will feature a range of events, including virtual offerings, inspired by the theme “The Black Women in Our Lives.”

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