Clenard Childress column

Rev. Dr. Clenard H. Childress, Jr., is the senior pastor of The New Calvary Baptist Church in Montclair, NJ. He is the founder of the website Blackgenocide.org and president of Life Education And Resource Network, Northeast. LEARN is the largest African-American pro-life group in the US. Rev. Childress is a leader in social activism and partners with the Center For Bioethical Reform, taking the Genocide Awareness Projects to college campuses around the country.

Rev. Childress and his wife Regina have 4 children: Clenard, Thomas, Tonya, and Tia.

Clenard Childress

July 18, 2022

Dr. Martin Luther King communicated often to his audiences and readers this quote: “We must all come to see that the end we seek is a society of peace with . . .

Clenard Childress

October 8, 2021

Governor Murphy of New Jersey has relentlessly pushed to have the Reproductive Freedom Act into state law. In June he stated he wanted it signed and on his . . .

Clenard Childress

April 28, 2021

The Civil Rights movement was propelled by the blatant portrayal, yet denial, of America’s systemic racism. The refusal to recognize the grave social . . .

Clenard Childress

December 14, 2020

Raphael Warnock is an African American male currently running for the US Senate and is the Senior Pastor of the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church of Atlanta.  . . .

Clenard Childress

October 16, 2020

I Got A Spell On You! This delirium demonstrated by many African Americans when it comes to the Democrat Party is astounding! It reminds me of a song from . . .

Clenard Childress

August 11, 2020

The Rev Dr. Martin Luther King stated ,“The negro cannot win if they choose to sacrifice their children for immediate comfort and safety. “Margaret sanger . . .

Clenard Childress

April 15, 2020

Rev Dr. Martin L. King said in his sermon, Stride Towards Freedom, " May the problem of race in America soon make hearts burn so that prophets will rise up . . .

Clenard Childress

May 28, 2019

The seductive tactics of evil institutions are often cynical and certainly deplorable. The sycophantic gestures or practice subliminally mocks its intended . . .

Clenard Childress

March 4, 2019

"There is a class of race problem solvers who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs and the hardships of the Negro race before the public ... Some . . .

Clenard Childress

July 14, 2018

NAACP religiously monitors the world for racist comments made by dignitaries, especially elected officials and organizations opposing the Democrat Party. The . . .

Clenard Childress

April 9, 2018

Aqunda Okeyo, who while serving as the Communications Chair for the March for Racial Justice, made an incendiary and thought-provoking observation when she . . .

Clenard Childress

January 6, 2018

Nationwide – FRONTLINE, the award-winning documentary series on PBS, has endeavored to probe into the African American anti-abortion movement in the . . .

Clenard Childress

September 7, 2017

Washington, D.C.( September 4, 2017) – Late yesterday, the American Freedom Law Center, a national public interest law firm, resolved an important First . . .

Clenard Childress

January 19, 2017

"One of the shameful tragedies of history is that the very institutions which should remove man from the midnight of racial segregation participates in creating . . .

Clenard Childress

August 24, 2016

The African American community was once viewed as the conscience of the nation but has now paid the Piper – wolves in sheep's clothing – to . . .

Clenard Childress

July 8, 2016

WE THE PEOPLE, are loosing the battle of public opinion and thus find ourselves unable to influence legislation. This has to end. Polling often suggests one . . .

Clenard Childress

January 27, 2016

It was mid-July when at our annual protest at the NAACP Convention in Philadelphia I heard the breaking news of the efforts of the Center for Medical Progress.  . . .

Clenard Childress

January 9, 2016

In the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, "Our primary reason for bringing an end to racial discrimination in America must not be the communist challenge. Nor . . .

Clenard Childress

December 30, 2015

If one ever wondered about the long-reaching poisonous tentacles of Planned Parenthood, it was never more evident than a November episode of "Scandal." The . . .

Clenard Childress

August 25, 2015

"As much as I deplore violence there is an evil that is even worse than violence and that's cowardice." If a believer does not take a stand in the world, if he . . .

Clenard Childress

July 17, 2015

Mark Levin, nationally known radio talk show host, broadcast nightly between 6:00 and 9:00 PM EST, is certainly known for his rants and tirades against Judicial . . .

Clenard Childress

July 16, 2015

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, when posed with the question concerning the finding in a recent Ebony poll revealed that only One in Ten Negroes have ever . . .

Clenard Childress

May 17, 2015

The Reverend Martin Luther King said in his book Stride Toward Freedom, "If you will protest courageously and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the . . .

Clenard Childress

March 29, 2015

Can there be anything more insidiously proposed; is there anything more ironically insane then this narrative? Let us look at this for what it is. Millions in . . .

Clenard Childress

March 27, 2015

In Martin Luther Kings Sermon "The Strength to Love" he penned one of many of his prophetical insight that speaks so clearly to our social ills today. . . .

Clenard Childress

September 30, 2014

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King often referenced his struggle, not only with racist white elitists, but also with self-seeking "colored people" who gained . . .

Clenard Childress

September 19, 2014

Less than a year before his death, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King expressed his frustration with Black Leadership's propensity to become self-serving ideologues . . .

Clenard Childress

June 12, 2014

We must never forget: everything Hitler did in Germany to persecute the Jews was "legal," and everything the Partisans and Individuals of Conscience did in any . . .

Clenard Childress

May 19, 2014

The words of Dr. Martin Luther King still ring true and their relevancy has not diminished, for in fact: they have never been more relevant! We are presently . . .

Clenard Childress

March 22, 2014

Bishop Paul Morton calls children conceived in rape, Demons... First, the good news: Bishop Paul Morton has declared he is no longer going to be a mindless . . .

Clenard Childress

March 8, 2014

Fulton J. Sheen once said, "If the bringing of children into the world is today an economic burden, it is because the social system is inadequate; and not . . .

Clenard Childress

December 5, 2013

Once upon a time, a long time ago, there was an ancient city named Troy. Once upon a time, a long time ago, there was an ancient city called Washington, DC.  . . .

Clenard Childress

October 17, 2013

To all who ever doubted the callous, inhumane mentality of the Barack Obama administration, this recent revelation of Obamacare should remove any uncertainty.  . . .

Clenard Childress

September 10, 2013

What a man sows he shall also reap... In President Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address on March 4, 1865, he insightfully delivered a message reminding . . .

Clenard Childress

August 20, 2013

The hijacking of the Civil Rights Movement by homosexual activists took a quantum leap with the barring of Donnie McClurkin from the Martin Luther King Concert . . .

Clenard Childress

August 16, 2013

These are were the words of Cory Booker at Metropolitan Baptist Church in Newark as he received the endorsement of nearly 40 African-American Clergy for the US . . .

Clenard Childress

August 13, 2013

Pro-fil-ing 1. The use of personal characteristics or behavior patterns to make generalizations about a person, as in gender profiling. 2. The use of . . .

Clenard Childress

August 2, 2013

Prior to the verdict of George Zimmerman, as the Rev. Jessie Jackson was being interviewed by a leading news station of his expectation of the decision of the . . .

Clenard Childress

May 7, 2013

The trial of Philadelphia's most sadistic serial killer of all time is coming to a close in the City of Brotherly Love. Charged with seven counts of first . . .

Clenard Childress

February 22, 2013

In 2003, I wrote this essay to convey the prophetical insight of Dr. Martin Luther King's two most memorable speeches: "I Have A Dream" and "I've Been To The . . .

Clenard Childress

January 23, 2013

Forty years ago America began to wander aimlessly within the realm of the Culture of Death. The law of the land stated you could legally kill innocent children . . .

Clenard Childress

January 2, 2013

The heinous and unconscionable acts of violence witnessed at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Connecticut, remind us of the reality of the culture-of . . .

Clenard Childress

November 15, 2012

This is The Urban Prophet's translation of II Chronicles 7:14 for America today as we ponder our present state of affairs. "If my people which are called by . . .

Clenard Childress

October 23, 2012

Without question we are at the precipice, the cusp, of the most significant presidential election of our Republic's history. There has never been an election . . .

Clenard Childress

August 7, 2012

It was recently reported that within a one year period in Afghanistan, there were 145 combat deaths, and in that same period in Chicago, there were 246 . . .

Clenard Childress

June 23, 2012

Former presidential candidate, Gary Bauer, and current president of, American Values, opined last month that, "No one would have predicted it, but President . . .

Clenard Childress

May 29, 2012

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, in these recent years, has been everything but for the advancement of Colored People. Its . . .

Clenard Childress

May 23, 2012

Dr. Martin Luther King's book, "A Stride Toward Freedom," was considered the handbook of the Civil Rights movement of the fifties and sixties. It was in this . . .

Clenard Childress

April 10, 2012

I had the privilege of being interviewed by Jonathan Coats, an Elder in Church Of God In Christ, and the host of the radio program, "Inside Politics," heard in . . .

Clenard Childress

April 6, 2012

The Department of Health and Human Services actually offers very little to humans in the stage of their lives before birth. This present administration's lust . . .

Clenard Childress

February 19, 2012

The call which came from President Barack Obama to Bishop Timothy Nolan, on or near the eve of Roe Vs Wade, expresses the relentless efforts of his . . .

Clenard Childress

June 12, 2011

One of the more fascinating exchanges in Scripture which depicts the contemporary decorum of debate in our present-day culture is clearly seen when Jesus . . .

Clenard Childress

May 5, 2011

The 21st century has offered new challenges to the faith community and society. We are faced with social issues which have become increasingly more complex due . . .

Clenard Childress

April 27, 2011

On July 13th, 1787, the Congress of the Confederation passed, "An ordinance for the government of the territory of the United States, north west of the River . . .

Clenard Childress

March 29, 2011

Once again the ideologues of the of the Left are confronted with the reality of Truth and due to their frustrations with the logic of this Truth, resort to . . .

Clenard Childress

February 22, 2011

Writing in "Right to Life News" a beautiful document about our right to life, the Rev. Jessie Jackson asked an amazingly salient question which shouts across . . .

Clenard Childress

October 19, 2010

Prophetic voices point us to the future by causing us to remember and consider the cornerstone truths of our past — lessons learned though struggle and . . .

Clenard Childress

July 10, 2010

The Reverend Jesse Jackson once said: "That is why the Constitution called us three-fifths human and then whites further dehumanized us by calling us 'niggers.' . . .

Clenard Childress

June 28, 2010

Solicitor General Elena Kagan, nominated by President Obama to replace retiring Court Justice, John Paul Stevens, has called the military ban on homosexuals, "a . . .

Clenard Childress

June 25, 2010

The chief cornerstone of truth by which Dr. Martin Luther King and others of the Civil Rights movement staked their claim for social justice is recorded in the . . .

Clenard Childress

February 12, 2010

The Plan? — "We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities." The Purpose? — . . .

Clenard Childress

January 7, 2010

The perpetual slide down the slippery slope of irrelevancy for the NAACP was never more clearly seen then when Julian Bond testified before the New Jersey State . . .

Clenard Childress

December 15, 2009

As an African American who has known both the pain and heartbreak of a centuries-long struggle for equality in this nation as well as the joy and exhilaration . . .

Clenard Childress

October 15, 2009

During the Democrat National Convention in Denver in 2008, I attended an Ecumenical Religious service where I heard Bishop Blake give one of the most stirring . . .

Clenard Childress

May 12, 2009

As I've written before, "The Negro cannot win if he chooses to sacrifice the future of his children for immediate comfort and safety...." This quote from Rev. . . .

Clenard Childress

March 24, 2009

"That is why right temporarily defeated is stronger than evil triumphant. I believe that even amid today's mortar burst and whining bullets, there is hope for a . . .

Clenard Childress

March 9, 2009

As I write this, Obama has just signed an Executive Order lifting restrictions on Embryonic Stem Cell research, a move he said, rejects the "false choice" . . .

Clenard Childress

February 12, 2009

Oscar Grant, a young African-American male whose friends and acquaintances describe as a "peace maker" can be viewed on YouTube pleading with his friends to be . . .

Clenard Childress

December 30, 2008

Sixty-six percent of American citizens will celebrate Christmas this season as a religious holiday. It is the day of the year where the globe recognizes the . . .

Clenard Childress

November 19, 2008

The people in darkness will see a great light Now is the time to ride the wave of the Spirit of social justice and free those who have been unlawfully . . .

Clenard Childress

November 13, 2008

Where do we go from here? This is probably the most asked question presently in America since the end of the Civil War, but I am wondering: who is asking it . . .