Like his friend and colleague Martin Luther King, Jr., he brought the voice of the black pulpit to the Mall. Words-and The Word-rolled out of him with an irrepressible force. Then Joe Lowery did what I knew he was going to do. Lowery approached the lectern with the tattered majesty of an old lion scarred by years of struggle in the thornbush. Lowery for the benediction.Īs a veteran Movement preacher, Dr. Even so, there was a mystical note missing until they brought on the 87-year-old Rev. Lowery and other African-American preachers have added this week to the Obama mystique.Īs an apex moment in civil-right history, the inauguration ceremony for Barack Obama lifted the heart to a joyful breaking. Howell Raines, author of My Soul Is Rested, on what Rev.
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