Conrad Tillard, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Conrad Tillard

America religious figure and activist

Date of Birth: 15-Sep-1964

Place of Birth: St. Louis, Missouri, United States

Profession: Imam, minister, human rights activist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Conrad Tillard

  • Reverend Conrad Bennette Tillard Sr.
  • is an American clergyman (faith leader), and civil right leader in the African-American consciousness movement tradition.
  • He is an author, educator, youth advocate, community activist, and public speaker, born on September 15, 1964 in St.
  • Louis, Missouri, he grew up in Washington DC and Atlanta, Ga.,.Today ,he is the Senior Minister of Flatbush Tompkins Congregational Church, a 120 year congregation located in the historic Ditmas Park section of Flatbush, Brooklyn.
  • The Church if affiliated with the National Association of Congregational Christians Churches.
  • Tillard is also and Adjunct Professor in the Black Studies Department at The City College of New York.
  • He is the Immediate past Sr.
  • Minister, of the Nazarene Congregational United Church of Christ in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn NY.
  • Prior to that, he was the Interim Senior Minister, at the Eliot Congregational Church in Boston's Roxbury neighborhood.
  • He is affiliated with the National Baptist Convention, USA, The American Baptist Church and the United Church of Christ, Licensed and ordained at the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, he has been a community activist for over 30 years.
  • A former member and minister of the Nation of Islam and a minister with Mosque No.
  • 7 in Harlem.
  • He was 19 when he joined the National of Islam.
  • While with the Nation of Islam he was known as Conrad X, Conrad Muhammad, and then Minister Conrad Muhammad.
  • He is known for his youth ministry and activism and was dubbed by Village Voice reporter Peter Noel, The Hip hop Minister while with the Nation of Islam.
  • Formerly considered as the heir apparent to leadership of the Nation of Islam, he was removed from being the Minister of Mosque No.
  • 7 by Minister Louis Farrakhan in 1997.
  • Subsequently, he became a Christian minister.He is a radio host for WHCR-90.3 FM radio in New York City.
  • The show he host is called Conversations with Conrad.Conrad is listed in the book African-American Religious Leaders from A to Z, published in 2010.
  • The book lists prominent religious leaders from various faiths.
  • The author is Nathan Aaseng. He organized a Day-of-Atonement after the death of Tupac Shakur.
  • In 2001 Conrad organized a Hip-Hop summit to address negative imagery and the promoting of gangsterism in hip-hop music, and called for hip-hop to clean up its act.
  • He organized a hip-hop summit in Harlem in 2002.
  • In 2004 he became Reverend Conrad Tillard, and was Sr.
  • Pastor at Nazarene Congregational Church, a United Church of Christ (UCC) in Brooklyn.
  • He was Interim Pastor, for The Eliot Church Of Roxbury, Massachusetts.

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