Atlanta church service will celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.

ATLANTA – Atlanta’s mayor, Georgia’s politician and U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock are scheduled to be the yearly Martin Luther King Jr. work astatine King’s aged congregation, Ebenezer Baptist Church successful Atlanta.

The work astatine Ebenezer and different events surrounding Martin Luther King Jr. Day commemorate what would person been King’s 93rd birthday.

In a quality release, the King Center successful Atlanta said the 10 a.m. Monday work volition beryllium broadcast unrecorded connected Atlanta’s Fox TV affiliate and connected Facebook, YouTube and thekingcenter.org.

The Rev. Natosha Reid Rice and Pastor Sam Collier volition preside implicit the service. This year's keynote talker is the Rev. Michael Bruce Curry, presiding bishop and primate of The Episcopal Church.

Musical performances are besides planned, including Keke Wyatt, Tasha Cobbs Leonard, Pastor Mike Jr., Le’Andria Johnson, and Emanne Beasha.

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“This year’s theme, ‘It Starts with Me: Shifting Priorities to Create the Beloved Community,’ reflects our content that it is critical, and indispensable for the endurance of some humanity and Earth, that we displacement our priorities for a strategical quest to make a just, humane, equitable and peaceful world,” King Center CEO Bernice King said successful a statement.

The Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday March and Rally is besides planned for Monday day successful downtown Atlanta. The march is scheduled to extremity connected Auburn Avenue successful beforehand of The King Center, wherever a rally is planned. The King Center is besides moving with the Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda and Youth Service America connected a elector registration thrust Monday successful Atlanta.

“On this King Holiday, I telephone america up to displacement our priorities to bespeak a committedness to existent bid and an consciousness of our interconnectedness, interdependence, and interrelatedness. This volition pb america to a greater knowing of our responsibilities to and for each other, which is important for learning to unrecorded together, achieving ‘true peace,’ and creating the Beloved Community,” Bernice King said successful announcing the events.

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Martin Luther King Jr. — pastor, civilian rights leader, 1 of the astir beloved figures successful the satellite — dedicated his beingness to achieving radical equality, a extremity helium said was inseparable from alleviating poorness and stopping war.

King delivered his historical "I Have a Dream" code portion starring the 1963 March connected Washington, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize successful 1964 and was assassinated successful 1968 successful Memphis portion assisting a onslaught by underpaid sanitation workers. He was 39.

King’s example, and his insistence connected nonviolent protest, continues to power galore activists pushing for civilian rights and societal change.

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