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New Generation of Black Church Leadership
Rising to Continue Battle for Freedom
Installation of Pastor Kevin Lamár Peterman at Historic DC Church Indicates Next Power Move for Social Justice in America
It was on Nov. 24, 2014, when then How- ard University student Kevin Lamár Peterman first felt a sermon rise from his belly.
That was the same day that a grand jury decided not to indict a white Ferguson, Mis- souri police officer, Darren Wilson, in the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Mike Brown, an un- armed Black teenager walking down the street in his neighborhood. It was a police killing that sparked historic protests across America; including fiery demonstrations in Ferguson that were met with military force.
Having returned from the uprisings in Fergu- son, Peterman was leading a community and student protest on the steps of Howard's Dou- glass Hall when the announcement came that Wilson would not be indicted.
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I felt turn into a sermon. And it was really so- cial justice that led me to ministry,” Peterman said in a recent interview. "I felt that the best way to advance the cause of Black people in America was through the church and through education. And so that's kind of how my min- istry began."
A little more than 10 years later, the stirring that Peterman felt that night has now come full circle. On Saturday, Nov. 22, 2025, at the age of 32, he was installed pastor of the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church, the oldest and most historic Black Baptist congregation in Wash- ington, DC, dating back through enslavement more than 180 years.
Today, as issues of racial justice continue to simmer and grow - across the nation, the NINETEENTH STREET BAPTIST CHURCH young men and women in his age group is be- ing viewed as a resurgence of sorts, part of a spiritual uprising of a new generation of civil rights leadership in the Black church.
"What you're seeing is that there are a num- ber of young Black preachers who are taking over historic Black churches in historic cities, who are doing this work of social justice and also doing the work of social impact while also preaching salvation," Peterman said. "Ev- ery generation of ministers is called to move the thermometer one notch, one pace forward. It's like a race. The baton has been passed to the next generation to run our leg of the race."
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