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Black churches mobilizing voters despite virus challenges

by Aaron Morrison
| October 12, 2020 7:03 AM

NEW YORK (AP) — For the Rev. Jimmy Gates Sr., the 2008 presidential election year was one to remember — and not just because it yielded a historic result as the nation elected its first Black president.

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