How the Ebenezer Baptist Church has been a seat of Black power for generations in Atlanta | Opinion
Updated Jan 18, 2021;
The high-stakes U.S. Senate race in Georgia catapulted the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church back into the spotlight. For 135 years, the church played a vital role in the fight against racism and the civil rights movement. It was the spiritual home of the civil rights leader, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
It is now the home of the state’s first Black senator – the Rev. Raphael Warnock, the senior pastor at the church.
As a scholar of African American religion and Christian theology, I believe it is important to understand how the Ebenezer Baptist Church has been a seat of Black power and organizing for generations in Atlanta.
MACOMB, Ill. - On the day of celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Western Illinois Athletics and the WIU Multicultural Center proudly announced Tammie Brown-Edwards and DeShon Gavin as the first recipients of the MLK Scholarship.
The MLK Service Scholarship recognizes two Western Illinois students, one student-athlete (Gavin) and one non-student-athlete (Brown-Edwards), who embody and exemplify the characteristics promoted by Dr. King - a vision of peace, persistence in purpose, inspirational action, and sportsmanship. Brown-Edwards and Gavin will each receive a one-time, non-renewable $500 scholarship in the spring of 2021.
Nominees were asked to write a one-page statement, answering the question, How has Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. inspired you? Brown-Edwards impactful letter is below.
Darryl Heller, director of Indiana University South Bend’s Civil Rights Heritage Center, will give the keynote speech today at the city s virtual celebration of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.
In Alabama, MLK Day means memories of love in the face of hate
Updated Jan 18, 2021;
Posted Jan 18, 2021
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the civil rights leader who orchestrated the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955-56 and non-violent protest marches in Birmingham in 1963 inspired by Gandhi, was killed on April 4, 1968 in Memphis, Tenn.(AL.com file art/Bill Thomas/The Birmingham News)
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In Birmingham, King taught love in the face of hate.
This January would have marked King’s 91st birthday.
King was born on Jan. 15, 1929, in Atlanta. He was killed on April 4, 1968, in Memphis. King’s wife, Coretta, was born in Marion, King was a pastor in Montgomery, and Alabama was a major backdrop for the events of his life, including the setting for his classic 1963 plea for civil rights, “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”