Willie Dwayne Francois III serves as Senior Pastor of Mount Zion Baptist Church in Pleasantville, New Jersey (Atlantic City) and co-chair of the Theological Working Group of the Black Church Center for Justice and Equality.
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Mama Itihari talks about the role of Spirit work in community building.
The Rev. Dr. Teresa L. Smallwood, associate director and postdoctoral fellow of the Vanderbilt Divinity School Public Theology and Racial Justice Collaborative calls for a new vision for policing. #PublicTheology
Rev. Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas speaks on the violence that violence creates as a part of the #MLKGlobal- Curating Global Voices Project
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KING: AN EARLY and PERSISTENT ADVOCATE OF GLOBAL SOLIDARITY #MLKGLOBAL
#MLK Global is a new international initiative of London-based UK non-profit Tipping Point North South and has been developed with our colleagues in the United States: Yolande Cadore and Jamye Wooten, Kinetics Live
Following the 50th anniversary of Dr Martin Luther King Jr’s death, Dr William Ackah from Birkbeck University in London, England looks at how the civil rights leader was shaped by black churches, communities and institutions, and asks why there has been no equivalent figure in Britain. #MLKGlobal
In 1967, at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, Martin Luther King spoke with NBC News’ Sander Vanocur about the “new phase” of the struggle for “genuine equality.”
