He lived and worked many of his teenage years in eastern Kanawha County and later became pastor of Harlem’s Abyssinian Baptist Church, one of the nation’s largest churches. e-WV: The West ...

"I was saddened but not shocked and surprised" by the not-guilty verdict, said Rev. Earle Fisher, a longtime civil-rights advocate and pastor at Abyssinian Baptist Church in Whitehaven.

“It’s like what I said about rappers,” says the Reverend Calvin Butts, 44, of the Abyssinian Baptist Church on 138th Street, whose own potential to be the black leader was set back when he ...