New Jersey Black church leaders chart post-election strategy after Sherrill victory

Rev. Dr. Charles F. Boyer and members of his Salvation and Social Justice team held a post-election strategy call on Monday, Nov. 10, for more than 140 Black church and faith community leaders. The meeting took place just six days after Mikie Sherrill’s decisive victory in the New Jersey gubernatorial race.

- By KAREN JUANITA CARRILLO Amsterdam News Staff

Salvation and Social Justice's "Black Church Voted" button 2025 (SandSJ photo)

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The call was a chance to celebrate, take a breather after months of organizing, reassess, and start planning for what comes next.

“Let me just say, sisters and brothers, that I am personally overjoyed and indebted to all of you on this call and many more who heard thoroughly, I think, the clarion call to make sure that the encroachment of Donald Trump and the MAGA movement did not make its way to State Street,” Rev. Boyer said at the start of the video call. “One thing that I think was largely a common theme amongst all of us was that the safety and the well-being of our people was paramount. And we certainly needed to activate the Black faith community in terms of what the work and the assignment was.”