PERSON: Eugene Rivers III
Employer
Azusa Christian Community
Position
Pastor
Biography
Eugene Franklin Rivers, III, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on April 9, 1950. His parents were Eugene F. Rivers II and Mildred Bell Rivers. He grew up in Chicago, Illinois, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, graduating high school from the Murrell Dobbins Vocational High School in 1968.
He was a gang member in Philadelphia, but left the gang, after being mentored by Reverend Benjamin Smith, the pastor of Deliverance Evangelistic Temple. Rivers wanted to be a painter, and enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. While a student, he increased his involvement in grassroots activism in Philadelphia and beyond. He joined Black Church-affiliated movements working on black liberation, economic empowerment and urban redevelopment. He was connected with the Black Economic Development Conference, and supported James Forman’s efforts to obtain reparations from churches and synagogues in the United States.
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He was a gang member in Philadelphia, but left the gang, after being mentored by Reverend Benjamin Smith, the pastor of Deliverance Evangelistic Temple. Rivers wanted to be a painter, and enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. While a student, he increased his involvement in grassroots activism in Philadelphia and beyond. He joined Black Church-affiliated movements working on black liberation, economic empowerment and urban redevelopment. He was connected with the Black Economic Development Conference, and supported James Forman’s efforts to obtain reparations from churches and synagogues in the United States.
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