Atlanta’s mayor, Georgia’s governor and U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock are scheduled to attend the annual Martin Luther King Jr. service at King’s old congregation, Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.
The service at Ebenezer and different events encompassing Martin Luther King Jr. Day remember what might have been King’s 93rd birthday.
In a news release, the King Center in Atlanta said the 10 a.m. Monday service will be communicated in real time on Atlanta’s TV associate and on Facebook, YouTube and thekingcenter.org.
The Rev. Natosha Reid Rice and Pastor Sam Collier will manage the service. The current year’s featured expert is the Rev. Michael Bruce Curry, managing diocesan and primate of The Episcopal Church.
Musical performances are likewise arranged, including Keke Wyatt, Tasha Cobbs Leonard, Pastor Mike Jr., Le’Andria Johnson, and Emanne Beasha.
“This year’s theme, ‘It Starts with Me: Shifting Priorities to Create the Beloved Community,’ reflects our belief that it is critical, and necessary for the survival of both humanity and Earth, that we shift our priorities for a strategic quest to create a just, humane, equitable and peaceful world,” King Center CEO Bernice King said in an assertion.
The Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday March and Rally is additionally made arrangements for Monday evening in midtown Atlanta. The march is scheduled to end on Auburn Avenue in front of The King Center, where a rally is planned. The King Center is additionally working with the Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda and Youth Service America on a voter registration drive Monday in Atlanta.
“On this King Holiday, I hit us up to move our needs to mirror a promise to genuine harmony and a consciousness of our interconnectedness, interdependence, and interrelatedness. This will lead us to a more noteworthy comprehension of our obligations to and for one another, which is urgent for figuring out how to live respectively, accomplishing ‘true peace,’ and making the Beloved Community,” Bernice King said in reporting the events.
Martin Luther King Jr. – pastor, scivil rights leader, one of the most adored figures on the planet – devoted his life to accomplishing racial equality, an objective he said was indivisible from easing destitution and stopping war.
King delivered his historic “I Have a Dream” discourse while driving the 1963 March on Washington, was granted the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 and was killed in 1968 in Memphis while helping a strike by underpaid sanitation workers. He was 39.
Ruler’s example, and his emphasis on peaceful dissent, keeps on impacting numerous activists pushing for civil rights and social change.