Robert R a TurnerRobert R. A. Turner is currently pastor of Empowerment Temple AME Church in Baltimore. He previously pastored the historic Vernon African Methodist Episcopal Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the only edifice on Greenwood Avenue to survive the 1921 mssacre. In college, he was influential in the campaign for the University of Alabama's Faculty Senate apology for the school's role in slavery. He is a National African American Reparations Commission (NAARC) commissioner and hosts monthly marches from Baltimore to the White House - 40 miles for 40 acres.