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Profile: Fields takes the helm of storied church

Summary by The Dispatch
Long before he was Rev. Derrick Fields, he was a boy wedged into a grey Ford pickup truck with his four younger siblings, being hauled to church by a “sainted” couple who he said lived just up the highway from his family home in Aberdeen. Today, Fields preaches behind the pulpit of the oldest Black church in Northeast Mississippi, one founded by enslaved African Americans, organized during Reconstruction and sustained through the Jim Crow era, i…
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The Dispatch broke the news in on Tuesday, February 24, 2026.
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