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Bay State Banner publisher’s two hats in bank-church dispute

By Steven Syre

 |  Globe Columnist  

  March 23, 2012

Mel Miller stands firmly on the side of OneUnited as the nation’s largest black-owned bank attempting to foreclose on Charles Street African Methodist Episcopal Church, one of Boston’s most historic black churches. Miller, publisher of the Bay State Banner and also a bank director, writes publicly about the consequences of default. But the bank and his newspaper both survived thanks to bailouts that have yet to be repaid.

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