MLK’s ‘Beloved Community’ Has Inspired Social Justice Work For Decades

(ANALYSIS) MLK Day volunteers typically perform community service that continues King’s fight to end racial discrimination and economic injustice — to build the “beloved community,” as he often said. But King does not fully explain the phrase’s meaning in his sermons and writings.

How Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church Has Been a Seat of Black Power for Generations

Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Ga. has a long history in the Black church. It was the spiritual home of the civil rights leader, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. It is now the home of the state’s first Black senator – the Rev. Raphael Warnock, the senior pastor at the church.

Analysis, News, North AmericaJason Oliver EvansFebruary 1, 2021The Conversation, Ebenezer Baptist Church, MLK Jr., Black power, Black church, theology, Atlanta, Georgia, Jason Oliver Evans, Secondary FeatureComment

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