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A New Year’s Day service at New Providence Missionary Baptist Church in Bagdad celebrated the 161st anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, but guest speaker Dr. Antjuan Marsh used the occasion to champion spiritual emancipation.
The New Providence Missionary Baptist choir performs Monday during a program celebrating the Emancipation Proclamation.
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