“We will fight”, Harris says in MLK Day speech, warning of threats to US freedom
Columbia, South Carolina, US Reuters US Vice President Kamala Harris warned Americans that their freedom is under threat as she commemorated Martin Luther King Jr Day in early-voting South Carolina on Monday, wielding the civil-rights icon’s legacy to urge Black voters to join Democrats to win the 2024 election. Harris headlined an annual event by […]
In the US, Martin Luther King, Jr, faith events continue in time of COVID-19 and Capitol chaos
RNS Commemorations of the life of Rev Martin Luther King, Jr, look different this year, with few in-person opportunities to preach, pray and volunteer amid the coronavirus pandemic. But many online gatherings that mark his birthday on Friday and the holiday in his honour on Monday will apply his messages of years ago to the […]
THE INTERVIEW: RICHARD LISCHER ON HOW MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR, USED THE PULPIT TO “REDEEM” AMERICA’S SOUL
YONAT SHIMRON, of Religion News Service, speaks Richard Lischer, professor emeritus of preaching at Duke Divinity School, about his classic book, The Preacher King: Martin Luther King, Jr and the Word That Moved America, just reissued ahead of Martin Luther King Day in the US…
Christian groups look to mark 50th anniversary of King assassination
RNS Rev Martin Luther King, Jr, speaks in Eutaw, Alabama, in June, 1965. Rev King was head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and a Nobel Peace Prize winner. PICTURE: AP Photo. Christian groups are planning more than the annual holiday celebrations that note the birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr, this year. […]
BOOK EXCERPT: IN HER OWN WORDS – CORETTA SCOTT KING ON FAITH, MATERIALISM AND GRIEF
This week, as the US celebrates Martin Luther King Jr Day, comes the publication of a new posthumous memoir by his wife Coretta Scott King: My Life, My Love, My Legacy. ADELLE M BANKS, of Religion News Service, looks at some excerpts…