Bishop’s annual ‘Dear Martin’ letter recalls historic speech
Bishop Woodie W. White Editor’s note: Bishop White, the first chief executive of the General Commission on Religion and Race, writes a “birthday letter” each year to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr....
View ArticleCommentary: Fifty years on, the Dream is becoming the new reality
Editor’s note: Bishop White, the first chief executive of the General Commission on Religion and Race, writes a “birthday letter” each year to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. about the progress of...
View ArticleThe challenge of MLK Day
By Bishop Joseph E. Pennell, Jr., Special Contributor… I was a pastor in Memphis, Tenn., when Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated. The morning after he was gunned down I marched with a group of...
View ArticleUM pastor Adam Hamilton calls on Obama to ‘knock holes in the darkness’
The Rev. Adam Hamilton preaching Jan. 22 at the Washington National Cathedral. Photo by Donovan Marks/courtesy Washington National Cathedral. Delivering the sermon at the National Prayer Service for...
View ArticleGlobal Ministries photographer had eye on King
A year to the day before the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., was assassinated, the civil rights leader made a major public speech against the war in Vietnam. John C. Goodwin, then 25 years old, was at...
View ArticleMLK’s daughter seeks nonviolent Ferguson response
By ELISA CROUCH c. 2014 Religion News Service BELLEFONTAINE NEIGHBORS, Mo. (RNS) The youngest child of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. leaned toward the 30 students facing her inside the library at...
View ArticleU.S. churchgoers still sit in segregated pews, and most are OK with that
Actor David Oyelowo portrays Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the movie Selma On the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday (Jan. 15), just as the civil rights drama “Selma” was nominated for best picture...
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