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    'It doesn't really feel like Easter.' For black churches, coronavirus changed everything

    by Angel Jennings, Los Angeles Times Apr 12, 2020 4 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - In times of crisis, First African Methodist Episcopal Church in South Los Angeles is known for springing into action - a reflex embodied in its motto, "First to Serve."

    It provided shelter during the 1992 riots. It offered healing after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. And for decades, it has filled in gaps in the social safety net when government has been absent or slow to respond.

    That's one reason the coronavirus pandemic has so pained its pastor, J. Edgar Boyd. Even as reports have shown that the deadly virus is hitting black Americans with a particular vengeance, he has had

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