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Author Pearl Cleage emphasizes a point during an interview Thursday, Aug. 16, 2001, at the Shrine of the Black Madonna in Atlanta. The original church was founded by her father, the Rev. Albert Cleage, in Detroit in the 1960s. (Credit: Ric Feld/AP)