Historic Black Baptist Church sued by woman who says she was not hired as senior pastor
According to court filings, a woman who attended an interview for the senior pastor post at Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York City is suing the church and the previous search committee chair for discrimination based on her gender.
In a complaint filed on December 29, Eboni Marshall Turman, an associate professor of theology and African American religion at Yale Divinity School and a former assistant minister at Abyssinian, claims that gender discrimination was the driving force behind the decision to reject her for the senior pastor position.
After longstanding head pastor Rev. Calvin O. Butts III passed away in 2022, a search committee examined Turman and several other contenders for the role, according to the
Turman claimed to have been told in September that she was not sel...