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Not about her, but about her parents:

  • White-Hammond's parents are well-known figures in the city of Boston. Her father, Ray Hammond, worked as a doctor of emergency medicine on Cape Cod during his first career. He felt called to Christian ministry and began preaching in 1978. In 1988 he founded Bethel AME Church in Jamaica Plain, MA, where he now co-pastors with his wife, Rev. Dr. Gloria White-Hammond. Hammond is also a co-founder of the Boston Ten Point Coalition, along with Eugene Rivers, and Rev. Jeffrey Brown, and other local clergy, Established in response to shootings at a funeral in 1992, the Ten Point Coalition is an ecumenical network of clergy and lay leaders that has focused on ending violence in Boston's neighborhoods. Rev. Dr. Gloria White-Hammond worked as a pediatrician at the South End Community Center until 2008. She became an ordained minister in the AME Church, and co-pastors with her husband at Bethel AME Church. In 2001, she and Rev. Liz Walker, a Presbyterian minister and former news broadcaster, travelled to South Sudan, where they learned about the struggles of women and girls who were victims of sex trafficking. Upon their return, they established a nonprofit to combat slavery and sex trafficking in South Sudan. MurielMary (talk) 11:59, 8 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

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