By Molly Minta, Mississippi Today Marie and Brian Bauman held hands as they walked into the quiet worship hall of a north Mississippi church and situated themselves in the front row. Five of their seven kids settled on either side of them. Most of the few dozen, mostly white, congregants of the Church of Jesus […]

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