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An interfaith service to honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. will be held Tuesday, April 4, at 7:00 pm in the sanctuary of Macedonia Baptist Church located at 1751 East 114th Street in Los Angeles. On the 50th Anniversary of Dr. King’s seminal sermon, “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence,” faith leaders and congregations will come together to look at how far America has come since 1967.

Based on today’s issues after the election of President Trump, for many people it feels like a slow slog to justice. Dr. King warned of “racism, militarism, and gross materialism.” Those are the same concerns today as people of color are disproportionately locked up in prisons, wars are raging on multiple fronts, and greed is driving people out of homes and healthcare is unaffordable.

You are invited to join Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity and Justice Not Jails to remember Dr. King and worship together with people of multiple faiths. This is our “Time to Break Silence.” We are called now to have faith and not fear as we stand in solidarity with people who are directly affected by recent Executive Orders and increased intrusion into their lives. Let us stand together for justice and integrity.

Rev. Dr. Art Cribbs

What: A Community-Wide Justice Revival and Rally
When: Tuesday, April 4th at 7 pm.
Where: Macedonia Baptist Church, 1751 East 114th Street, Los Angeles

Organizer: Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity – Justice Not Jails

Cosponsors: LA Progressive • Progressive Christians Uniting • AME Ministerial Alliance • Amity Foundation • Bartimaeus Cooperative Ministries • Bishop R. Guy Erwin, PhD, ELCA Southwest California Synod • Californians for a Responsible Budget • Council on American-Islamic Relations • Drug Policy Alliance • LA Council of Religious Leaders • Rev. R. Guy Erwin, Ph.D. Bishop, Southwest California Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America • Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism • South Coast Interfaith Council • Southern California Nevada Conference of the United Church of Christ • Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace • More To Come…

Fifty years ago, on April 4, 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his breakthrough sermon linking racism, capitalism, and militarism at New York’s Riverside Church. King’s courageous sermon was titled “Beyond Vietnam: Time to Break Silence.”

Exactly one year later—on April 4, 1968—Dr. King was assassinated in Memphis while standing with that city’s striking Black sanitation workers.

Recalling King’s fearless final year, and conscious of the challenge we face now in a new time of national crisis, faith leaders in Southern California will convene a major gathering for all who still seek to create King’s Beloved Community.

Acting in the Spirit of Dr. King
April 4th, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Macedonia Baptist Church of LA
1751 E 114th Street, Los Angeles, California

We who seek to save our country from the grip of hatred and misrule are not without resources. We remember how the faith and discipline of a mightily oppressed Black America overthrew the yoke of legal segregation in years of focused struggle. We remember that it was organized popular resistance that finally put an end to the hubris and slaughter of the Vietnam War.

In these movements and others that followed the faith community was there to provide counsel and spiritual sustenance and strategic support.

Fifty years to the day after Dr. King called out the entrenched and interrelated evils of racism, class oppression, and militarism, faith community leaders in Los Angeles invite everyone who is already in the freedom struggle—and all who now wish to be part of it—to come together to speak out, share strategies, and chart a way forward.

“Acting in the Spirit of Dr. King” is intended to build power: people power, political power, spiritual power. No one who takes part will be able to say they can’t find a place to make a difference. We will not simply articulate the nature of the threats we face; we will not merely vent our outrage; we will set the stage for a year of focused nonviolent action in the spirit of the prophet who was assassinated in Memphis exactly one year after delivering his “Time to Break Silence” sermon in New York.

Sponsors: Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity Justice Not Jails, LA Progressive, Progressive Christians Uniting…More To Come.