Thread by @TwShiloh, Jermaine Grant, leader of the Israelite Church of God inJesus Christ, died [...]

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Jermaine Grant, leader of the Israelite Church of God inJesus Christ, died of COVID-19. The church was classified as a black supremacist organization by the @splcenter & ideology was linked to an attack in New Jersey last December. #domesticterrorism https://www.nj.com/coronavirus/2020/04/controversial-leader-of-hebrew-israelite-movement-from-nj-dies-of-coronavirus-church-says.html

Controversial leader of Hebrew Israelite movement from N.J. dies of coronavirus, church says

Jermaine Grant, 44, had been described as “the man with the most power over the extremist Hebrew Israelite movement."

https://www.nj.com/coronavirus/2020/04/controversial-leader-of-hebrew-israelite-movement-from-nj-dies-of-coronavirus-church-says.html

Great thread about when the group made a number of action figures, including one of Grant. https://twitter.com/skestenbaum/status/1002621757117947905?s=20

https://twitter.com/skestenbaum/status/1002621757117947905?s=20

And definitely worth reading this story about the church being unsatisfied customers... https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/harlem-church-suing-leader-doll-not-black-article-1.1327823

Harlem church sues toymaker Emil Vicale after talking doll in leader's likeness is not black enough

A controversial Harlem church ordered action figures cast in the image of their leader — and sued when the dolls they got didn’t look like him and weren’t black enough.

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/harlem-church-suing-leader-doll-not-black-article-1.1327823

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