“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 […]
US religious leaders to mark MLK Day with early start for 2024 voter mobilisation
United States RNS For Black church leaders and multiracial coalitions, Martin Luther King Jr Day, which falls on Monday, 15th January, less than 300 days from Election Day, has come to represent the unofficial start to voter mobilisation efforts. Plans for what would have been King’s 95th birthday are focused on overcoming increased restrictions on […]
Essay: Voice referendum a chance for Australia’s church to take a stand for justice
TIM COSTELLO wonders whether Australian Christians have learnt the lessons of history when it comes to addressing injustice…
Essay: America is exceptional – in its addiction to violence and war
US activist, author and co-director of Red Letter Christians SHANE CLAIBORNE says – in an article first published on Religion News Service – that while it’s been 55 years since Martin Luther King’s historic speech, ‘Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence,’ it still rings out as true as ever…
On MLK Day, Biden says Americans must commit to King’s work
Atlanta, Georgia, USAP Americans must commit to the unfinished work of Martin Luther King, Jr, delivering jobs and justice and protecting “the sacred right to vote, a right from which all other rights flow,” President Joe Biden said Monday. Martin Luther King Day is a moment when a mirror is held up to America, the […]
In the US, King family rally in Arizona for voting bills for MLK Day
Phoenix, Arizona, USAP As the nation prepares to mark the birthday of Rev Martin Luther King, Jr, some members of his family are spending it in conservative-leaning Arizona to mobilise support for languishing federal voting rights legislation. Martin Luther King III; his wife, Arndrea Waters King; and their daughter Yolanda Renee King, 13, took part […]
Essay: How the Vietnam War pushed MLK to embrace global justice, not only civil rights at home
Ahead on Martin Luther King Jr Day held in the US on 17th January, ANTHONY SIRACUSA, senior director of inclusive culture and initiatives at the University of Colorado Boulder, looks – in an article from The Conversation, at took his campaign for civil rights beyond US borders…
Bernice King: Racial justice activism must focus on strategy
Atlanta, Georgia, USAP Rev Martin Luther King, Jr’s, youngest daughter said she’s afraid American society is unraveling, telling a Christian radio network on Thursday that “I don’t know what’s going to happen ultimately to democracy.” But Dr Bernice King also said she is determined to be part of the solution, working to transform minds and […]
Essay: As the US marked another MLK Day, white evangelicals again have a choice to make on racial justice
In an article adapted from his book ‘The Color of Compromise: The Truth About the American Church’s Complicity in Racism‘, JEMAR TISBY, says Martin Luther King, Jr, “saw an indissoluble link between the Christian faith and the responsibility to change unjust laws and policies”…
Funeral for Rayshard Brooks to be held at MLK’s church
Atlanta, USAP Rayshard Brooks, who was fatally shot by a police officer, is to be remembered Tuesday at the church in Atlanta where Rev Martin Luther King, Jr, once preached. The private funeral at Ebenezer Baptist Church follows a public viewing held Monday. Rev Raphael Warnock, senior pastor at the church and a Democratic candidate […]