Hoodie Sunday: Remembering Trayvon Martin

Source: The Detroit News – Christine Ferretti

Rev. Charles C. Adams for the first time gave his Sunday sermon in a hoodie.

The presiding pastor at Hartford Memorial Baptist Church in Detroit approached the pulpit with a can of iced tea and package of Skittles in hand all in honor of an unarmed Florida teen that was fatally gunned down last month by a neighborhood watch captain.

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The 10,000-member church on James Couzens near West Seven Mile is one of many organizations standing up nationwide to express outrage in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.

“We have a slogan: We are Trayvon Martin,” Adams, dressed in a green Wayne State University hoodie, told The Detroit News between one of two sermons Sunday on the issue. “Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere.”

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