Rep. Hakeem Jeffries spreads support for Prop 50 across Black L.A. churches

U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries visited three black churches over the weekend to convince the congregants to give up their political voting power under Proposition 50.

Jeffries visited First African Methodist Episcopal Church of Los Angeles in West Adams, Mt. Sinai Missionary Baptist Church in South L.A. and Resurrection Church of Los Angeles in Carson.

This summer, the Internal Revenue Service says it will allow houses of worship to endorse candidates for political office without losing their tax-exempt status.

Since 1954, a provision in the tax code called the Johnson Amendment says that churches and other nonprofit organizations could lose their tax-exempt status if they participate in, or intervene in “any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for public offi