When Kirk Franklin accepted his honor as best gospel artist at the Dove Awards last month, he took the opportunity to discuss racial tension in America.
Franklin, who grew up in Fort Worth, Texas, asked the audience to pray for Atatiana Jefferson, a black woman who had been fatally shot by a white police officer in Fort Worth just days before. “I’m just asking that we send up prayers for her family and for his,” he said.
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