SAN FRANCISCO — Two months before Texas voters sent him to Congress, Rev. Dr. Frederick Douglass Haynes III came home to the pulpit where he was raised. On September 10, 2026, he was the special guest speaker at The Sun-Reporter’s Black Men: Celebrating Change Makers program at Historic Third Baptist Church.
He was a candidate that night. He talked about the campaign and about what a community can do when it comes together, and he honored The Sun-Reporter from the pulpit. On November 3 he went on to win Texas’s 30th Congressional District.
Rev. Dr. Haynes is Senior Pastor of Friendship-West Baptist Church in Dallas. Read our story on his big November, or watch the full celebration.
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