"We spoke as late as a couple of weeks ago about this work, as he was still fighting cancer.
He was a dominant faith and academic leader for decades," the Rev. Butts was a major pillar in the Harlem community and is irreplaceable.
to develop moderate-income housing, retail, schools and other projects in the surrounding neighborhood.īutts helped mobilize church leaders to support programs for AIDS patients in the 1980s and more recently set up a COVID-19 vaccination clinic at Abyssinian to encourage community residents to get immunized against the virus. In 1989, he established the nonprofit Abyssinian Development Corp. He also worked with political leaders across the ideological spectrum.īutts’ impact extended far beyond his church’s walls.
In addition to his religious work, he was also an academic, serving as president of SUNY Old Westbury for more than two decades, from 1999 to 2020. Irving Could Return Sunday, Nets List Him as Questionable
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