![]() ![]() ![]() to develop moderate-income housing, retail, schools and other projects in the surrounding neighborhood.īutts helped mobilize church leaders to support programs for AIDS patients in the 1980s and more recently set up a COVID-19 vaccination clinic at Abyssinian to encourage community residents to get immunized against the virus. In 1989, he established the nonprofit Abyssinian Development Corp. That same year, Butts hosted then-Cuban leader Fidel Castro at Abyssinian, where the fatigues-wearing communist received a hero’s welcome.īutts surprised many by endorsing Hillary Clinton over Barack Obama in the 2008 Democratic presidential primary, saying the endorsement “was not and is not and will not become a race-based decision for me.” Butts later said he was “overjoyed” when Obama was elected as the first Black president of the United States that November.īutts’ impact extended far beyond his church’s walls. George Pataki appointed Butts to two state boards that controlled economic development grants to businesses. Irving Could Return Sunday, Nets List Him as Questionable ![]()
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