John Jasper is not an educated man ... His faith is strong, and after sixty or more years as pastor, bent and bowed by age, he clings to the sweet old, old story, the story of redemption, as ...

RICHMOND, Va., March 30.-The Rev. John Jasper, the famous colored advocate of the "Sun do move" theory, died at his home here to-day, aged ninety years. He had for many years been pastor of the ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Nearly 30 volunteers gathered at Woodland Cemetery this Fourth of July to work in honor of Reverend John Jasper’s birthday. Jasper was a former slave who became a ...

The Rev. John Jasper, a fiery preacher who was born a slave, laid the foundation for one of Richmond's oldest churches in an abandoned Confederate horse stable on Brown's Island. Now, the 145-year ...

The Rev. Jasper Williams Jr. of the Salem Bible Church in Atlanta touched on Franklin's life and career but also criticized black-on-black crime and said single mothers are incapable of ...