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Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebrations Jan. 20, 21 in Macomb

January 18, 2019

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MACOMB, IL -- This weekend, across the United States, thousands of community organizations, churches, educational entities and individuals will reminisce and celebrate the legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 

Last Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019, would have been King's 90th birthday. He is remembered as a prominent civil rights activist who was an advocate of nonviolent protest and global liberation, and beloved brother of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. On behalf of the Gwendolyn Brooks Cultural Center, we invite you to remember Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as Gwendolyn Brooks did in 1968. Her poem read:
 
A man went forth with gifts.
He was a prose poem.

He was a tragic grace.
He was a warm music.

He tried to heal the vivid volcanoes.
His ashes are
reading the world.
His Dream still wishes to anoint
the barricades of faith and of control.

His word still burns the center of the sun,
above the thousands and the
hundred thousands.

The word was Justice. It was spoken.
So it shall be spoken.

So it shall be done.
(1968 - Martin Luther King, Jr.)

In our continuing mission to be vessels of justice, we amplify the work of Mount Calvary Church of God in Christ (COGIC) and Western Illinois Museum and invite you to the following weekend activities:
 
• The Meeting: Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X
Western Illinois Museum
Sunday, Jan. 20
Doors open at 1:30 p.m.
 
• Mt. Calvary Church of God in Christ
Monday, Jan. 21
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative March and Day of Celebration
 
• 9:30 a.m. – March
Meet at 9:15 a.m. in the parking lot on the east side of Macomb's Courthouse Square
 
• 10:30 a.m.– Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Celebration Program
Mt. Calvary Church of God in Christ - 1500 E. Pierce St., Macomb

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