The CEO of the King Center in Atlanta says she hopes to spur progress during this year's observances of Martin Luther King Jr. Day by helping more Americans personalize the struggle for racial equity and harmony
Passers-by walk near the 20-foot-high bronze sculpture"The Embrace," a memorial to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, in the Boston Common, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023, in Boston. The sculpture, consisting of four intertwined arms, was inspired by a photo of the Kings embracing when MLK learned he had won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. The statue is to be unveiled during ceremonies Friday, Jan. 13, 2023. Annual tributes and commemorations of the life and legacy of the Rev.
“Change can be very small,” she said, “but transformation means that now we changed the character, form, and nature of something. That’s something we have not seen yet.”, a symposium on police brutality in Akron, Ohio, and community service projects in many U.S. cities.
The Rev. Al Sharpton, who got his start as a civil rights organizer in his teens as youth director of an anti-poverty project of King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference, will hold his annual King holiday events in Washington, D.C., and New York on Monday.
“If we don’t find humane ways to create policies and implement practices out of those policies, we’re going to continue in this vicious cycle of a downward spiral towards destruction and chaos." The $10 million sculpture called “The Embrace” consisting of four intertwined arms was inspired by a photo of the Kings embracing when King Jr. learned he had won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. It was designed by Hank Willis Thomas and MASS Design Group and was selected out of 126 proposals.
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A monument to MLK and Coretta Scott King's loveInspired by a photograph of the civil rights activists hugging each other, 'The Embrace,' a 22-foot-tall bronze sculpture by artist Hank Willis Thomas, will be unveiled at Boston Common on January 13.
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Rev. Al Sharpton to host MLK Day celebration - New York Amsterdam NewsIn commemoration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Rev. Al Sharpton and the National Action Network (NAN) will host its annual Policy Forum at the NAN House of Justice in Harlem on Monday, Jan. 16.
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