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News Articles: Martin Luther King Day

Conductor Jonathan Taylor Rush is pictured during the King Celebration Concert at Ebenezer Baptist Church on Jan.4, 2025

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The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra's King Celebration Concert is back. Here's how to watch it on MLK Day

After a long hiatus, the King Celebration Concert is back, featuring the Ebenezer Baptist Church Choir and Band along with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Chorus, prominent composers and jazz singer Gregory Porter. 

January 17, 2025
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By:
  • Kristi York Wooten
U.S. Marshal Cato Ellis serves Dr. Martin Luther King and his aides with a temporary restraining order barring them from leading another march without court approval, outside the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 3, 1968. The order was aimed at stopping a march set for April 8 in support of city sanitation workers. Identified people in the photo are Cato, holding papers, Rev. Ralph Abernathy, Andrew Young, in profile and Kin. Others are unidentified.

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Events across Georgia commemorate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

With the Martin Luther King Jr. weekend approaching, events celebrating the life and work of King will take place Jan. 11 to Jan. 15 throughout Georgia, the home state of the late civil rights activist. Here is a list of activities and commemorations.

January 11, 2024
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  • GPB News Staff
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial is seen during Juneteenth, which commemorates the end of slavery in Texas, two years after the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves elsewhere in the United States, in Washington, D.C. U.S., June 19, 2021. REUTERS/Ken Cedeno

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Political Rewind: Are we living up to King's dream?; Biden visits Ebenezer

Monday on Political Rewind: As we remember Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy today, our special panel will ask if we're living his dream in the modern day. Plus we discuss President Biden's visit to Ebenezer Baptist Church. 

January 16, 2023
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  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Natalie Mendenhall ,
  • and 1 more
 (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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Biden visit underscores MLK's legacy and Atlanta's prominence on the global stage

In honor of the 2023 Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday, President Joe Biden and Sen. Raphael Warnock delivered messages of unity from MLK's historic pulpit at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.

January 15, 2023
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  • Kristi York Wooten
Dr. Martin Luther King in Macon 1968

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‘He was a powerful presence.’ Remembering Martin Luther King Jr.’s last visit to Macon

Dr. Martin Luther King’s walk up the seven steps to New Zion would be his last walk in Macon. It came on one of the final Georgia stops of a blow-through-town campaign for the poor. It was 1968.

January 17, 2022
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By:
  • Joe Kovac
 Swati Kulkarni, consulate general of India, Atlanta, describes how Martin Luther King Jr. and Mohandas Gandhi’s philosophy on nonviolent civil disobedience became a catalyst for social change. Kulkarni spoke at Friday’s celebration of King at the Georgia Capitol.

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Annual MLK Capitol tribute draws parallels between King, Gandhi

 

A tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. at the Georgia Capitol Friday spotlighted the connections with fellow civil rights trailblazer Mohandas Gandhi.

January 17, 2022
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  • Stanley Dunlap
A visitor walks through the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial as a winter storm blows through the Washington area, Sunday, Jan. 16, 2022. Ceremonies scheduled for the site on Monday, to mark the Martin Luther King, Jr. national holiday have been canceled because of the weather.

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Political Rewind: Reflecting on Dr. King's legacy as fight for voting rights continues

Monday on Political Rewind: We mark Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day with a panel of Georgians reflecting on the legacy of the great civil rights leader. What would Dr. King make of the setbacks in the U.S. Senate this past week experienced by those calling for new voting rights legislation? 

January 17, 2022
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  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Sam Bermas-Dawes ,
  • and 1 more
The annual Unity 5K on MLK will happen on Martin Luther King Boulevard this year, followed by a free festival.

Honoring MLK, Roasting Oysters, More Coastal Events Jan. 16-20

This holiday weekend brings no shortage of fun to the Georgia coast. Mahogany Bowers of Blessings in a Bookbag and Rachael Flora of Connect Savannah...

January 17, 2020
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  • Emily Jones

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