It begins at 9 a.m. at the Ebenezer Baptist Church’s New Horizon Sanctuary.
ATLANTA — The King Center in Atlanta will mark the MLK Day holiday on Monday with its Beloved Community commemorative service and other civic events to continue the effort of fulfilling Dr. King’s vision of a global cooperative society “in which all people can share in the wealth of the earth.”
The service begins at 9 a.m. at the Ebenezer Baptist Church’s New Horizon Sanctuary in Atlanta.
The theme for this year’s MLK Holiday at The King Center is “Mission Possible: Protecting Freedom, Justice and Democracy in the Spirit of Nonviolence365.” The center has been conducting events across the last two weeks in the lead-up to the holiday.
The Beloved Community was central to Dr. King’s philosophy and has remained a unifying theme of The King Center’s work. It is considered the ultimate end goal of nonviolent activism.
In the Beloved Community, poverty, hunger …