Racial Justice Award 2017 Martin Luther King Distinguished Individual Leadership Award 2019 Fellow of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare Selected publications Personal life Wallace is married with four children. Since 2004 Wallace has served as Senior Pastor of the Bible Center Church. The church was founded by his grandparents, Elder Ralph and Mother Groce, in 1956. Through the church, Wallace leads Own Our Own, a start-up hub for African-American entrepreneurs. He is President of the Board of Directors of Operation Better Block, an organisation that looks to support the Homewood community through strategising and organising. In 2016, Wallace opened the Everyday Cafe, which looks to bring together the Homewood community. References Living people Year of birth missing (living people) African-American academics University of Pittsburgh faculty University of Michigan alumni University of Chicago alumni American sociologists 21st-century African-American people