Southern Baptists elect 1st black president

By Washington Examiner

Published June 19, 2012 4:00am ET

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Southern Baptists elect 1st black president — Fred Luter, Pastor of the Franklin Ave. Baptist Church in New Orleans reacts as he is elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention, at the convention in New Orleans, Tuesday, June 19, 2012. Luter is the first African-American to be elected president of the nation's largest Protestant denomination. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) | Gerald Herbert

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Southern Baptist Convention voted Tuesday to elect its first African-American president in one of its biggest steps yet to reconcile the 167-year-old denomination’s troubled racial past and appeal to a more diverse group of believers.

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