Oprah Honors Ohio Pastor, Civil Rights Activist

CLEVELAND -- Talk show host Oprah Winfrey has helped honor an Ohio minister who fought for civil rights in the 1950s and '60s alongside Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

Winfrey attended a retirement dinner in Cleveland Sunday for 73-year-old Rev. Otis Moss Jr. He's stepping down after 33 years as pastor of Olivet Institutional Baptist Church.

The event also drew Rev. Jesse Jackson, Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson and former Ohio congressman Louis Stokes. Stokes read a congratulatory letter from President-elect Barack Obama.

Moss' son is pastor at Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ where Obama worshipped. Rev. Otis Moss III replaced Obama's former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

Obama resigned from the Chicago church and condemned Wright during the presidential campaign for his fiery sermons critical of America.

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