Why Southern Baptists Can't Shake Their Racist Past

Leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention struggled to denounce white nationalism at their annual gathering in Phoenix this week. The nation's largest Protestant denomination, which was founded in 1845 over the issue of slavery and whose leaders once championed segregation and Jim Crow laws, has made significant strides in recent years to reform its image on such matters. But when it comes to the denomination's race relations, the past is a ghost whose haunting seems unending.