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Melvin Banks (1934–2021), founder of Christian publishing house Urban Ministries, Inc.

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Melvin Banks was the founder of Urban Ministries, Inc., the largest Black Christian publishing house in the U.S.Banks founded Urban Ministries, Inc.

in 1970, fulfilling a longtime dream. The publishing house got its start in Banks’ Chicago basement, and it grew to serve tens of thousands of congregations, focusing on Sunday School curricula and Bible study materials for Black churches.

Banks created a brand new – and sometimes controversial – product when he began publishing Christian study materials depicting Biblical figures as both Black and white, reflecting the reality of the Bible’s setting in the Middle East and North Africa.

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