Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church, a historically Black church in Greenville, Mississippi, built more than 100 years ago, was set on fire and vandalized on Tuesday night. “Vote Trump” was written on the right side of the church with spray paint.
None of the church’s 200 members were in the building at the time of the fire. No injuries were reported.
A press conference was held Wednesday with comments made by Greenville officials including the mayor, police chief and fire chief, who are all African American.Seventy-eight percent of the city’s 32,000 population is Black, according to U.S. census data.
