by Starlette Thomas | Sep 16, 2022 | News
The National Baptist Convention of America, International met in person at St. Stephen Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky, and online for its 142nd annual session. Members gathered from across the country and Samuel Tolbert Jr., president of the organization,...
by Brian Kaylor | Jun 30, 2014 | News
Delegates to the annual gathering of the National Baptist Convention of America, Inc., International (NBCA) on Wednesday, June 25, elected the group’s first new president in 11 years. Samuel Tolbert, who had been the NBCA’s first vice president, easily...
by Brian Kaylor | Jun 24, 2014 | News
Delegates to the meeting of the National Baptist Convention of America Inc., International (NBCA) will vote Wednesday to choose one of three presidential candidates to lead the convention. The second largest black Baptist convention in the United States, the NBCA...
by Robert Parham | Apr 8, 2014 | Opinion
Sam Tolbert has announced that he is running for the presidency of the National Baptist Convention of America Inc. (NBCA), with the election to be held June 25, 2014, in Memphis, Tenn. NBCA is one of the major African-American Baptist denominations, with 1.5 million...
by Bob Allen | Jan 28, 2005 | News
An estimated 10,000 African-American Baptist leaders gathered this week in Nashville, Tenn., for a historic joint board meeting of four major denominations. “You cannot microwave ox tails,” Suzan Johnson Cook of Bronx Christian Fellowship in Bronx, N.Y.,...