Young Mills

Clay Mills Road Baptist Church Pastor Jeff Fugate claims ignorance was the reason that his assistant dressed up in blackface to participate in a boxing match as part of a skit for the National Young Fundamentalist Conference in Lexington, Ky., reports…

The head of a Kentucky church is pleading 'ignorance' over a 'blackface boxing match' skit held during a religious conference this week. Pastor Jeff Fugate, 49, of Lexington, oversaw the National Young Fundamentalists Conference at his Clay Mills Road …

Someday, that will become one of the best punches in boxing, that jab. It will carry this young, unknown upstart trying to keep himself from an arduous life in Bethlehem's steel mills to immortality, that jab. But on this night - on March 21, 1973 - in…