There are 40 article(s) tagged Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.:
Lawson organized the sanitation workers strike that fatefully drew Martin Luther King Jr. to Memphis. Lawson said he was at first paralyzed and forever saddened by King’s assassination.
Fifty-six years to the day of his assassination, Martin Luther King Jr.’s son stood on the balcony where his father was fatally wounded in 1968 and talked about the movement King led in the here and now. MLK III says current times and painful memories bring him to MemphisRelated story:
“With that tragic event came an understanding that we have the unique responsibility to reject everything that pulled that trigger, the national events and mindsets that were behind that bullet then and now.”
“I believe that the truth is to be found, and we can find it the same way that King was looking for it on the night of April 4, 1968.”
“Would that Memphis and its surrounding communities realize King’s dream and be a compelling model for the nation.”
Two history professors, looking at the city’s Civil Rights Movement since Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination 55 years ago, talk about Tyre Nichols, police reform and where today’s movement is headed on “Behind The Headlines.”
“This is about celebrating Dr. King’s life, his work and what he’s done,” said Noelle Trent with the National Civil Rights Museum. “King Day is a birthday party, and we should be excited, happy, and be celebrating the life of Dr. King.”
There are multiple ways Memphis-area groups will celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.’s birth.
“Seeing history as informing who we are and what we must do in the present no matter what befalls us as a city, nation, and world.”
The national tour of “Solidarity Now! 1968 Poor People’s Campaign” debuted at the Memphis museum in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service.
We must strip hateful politics from the rhetoric we use every day and advocate for all of us to be able to live with enough food on the table and to have a meaningful job that will pay our basic bills.
The National Civil Rights Museum commemorated the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday, April 4. The recordings of King’s sermons resonated with the times as one of those in his inner circle returned for what has become an annual pilgrimage.
MLK PrayWalk: An Interfaith Prayer Service and Walk of Hope started with a gathering at St. Peter’s Church and concluded on the grounds of the National Civil Rights Museum.
“Just as the Lorraine (Motel) was one of the few places in the 1960s where African Americans were welcomed, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital opened its doors to all at the height of formal segregation,” said Russell Wigginton, president of the National Civil Rights Museum.
Memphis educators share resources they use to teach the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Like Elvis, Tom Bailey started in Tupelo and found his way to Memphis. He’s now ending a journalism career that spans four decades in the two locations.
As Memphis’ pandemic-delayed Africa In April festival starts Friday, supporters say it’s time to honor one of its early organizers, Adjua Naantaanbuu.
The marker notes the location of a slave market run by Nathan Bedford Forrest.
The program airs at 5 p.m. Sunday, April 4, and concludes with a moment of silence and bells tolling at 6:01 p.m., the time on April 4, 1968, when King was shot on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel.
‘Commemorations with little or no consideration for King as preacher, make me wonder how many King admirers are unaware of the transcendent religious experience that was his defining moment.’
“I believe that if Dr. King had not come to Memphis, my father and his co-workers would have been forced to continue to work under the same terrible conditions that led to the senseless deaths of sanitation workers Robert Walker and Echol Cole.”
The Grizzlies partnered with FedEx, Feed the Children and the Women’s Foundation to help provide food, household items and school supplies to 1,200 families in need.
Groups are finding virtual ways to serve for the MLK holiday this year because of the pandemic.
Memphis musicians Garry Goin, TykeT, Karen Brown and Adajyo will perform.
The Rev. Dr. Netters is one of the most revered figures in Memphis history, a legacy highlighted by his 1967 election to serve as one of the first three African American City Council members.
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