Hunter is senior minister of the First AME Church in Los Angeles.

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There, she greeted Dr. Jayme Coleman Williams, a woman she mentioned in her remarks that has worked tirelessly in the AME Church for decades.

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That didn't affect the Perrys, but their neighbors at Marina Bay, Sally and Keith Huzyak, used the mortgage deduction to the max when they combined the mortgage on their primary home, a Lake Tahoe condo, and their 66-foot Pollycraft motor yacht, the Bes-ame ("kiss me" in Spanish).

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Tracing its roots back to the time of slavery in the late 1700s, the minister who started the first AME church did so after his former church demanded African Americans worship in a segregated balcony.

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Back in Georgetown, South Carolina, Margretta Knox remembers attending the Bethel AME church with the first lady's grandparents -- Jim Robinson's grandson and his wife -- when she was a girl.

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Kiev native ame to Moscow to study, with college buddies Kuzmichev and Fridman started commodities trader, Alfa-Eco, in 1989.

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