Before the service, Pence toured the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, where King was fatally shot on April 4, 1968, while standing on a balcony. Howard-John Wesley, senior pastor of Alfred Street Baptist Church in Alexandria, Virginia, will be the keynote speaker at a service Monday at organized by the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change. ADIt will be held in the sanctuary of Ebenezer Baptist Church, which King and his father both led. King’s economic and antiwar activism can sometimes be bleached out of celebrations of the holiday, he has said. Brian Kemp, planned to attend the Ebenezer Baptist Church event.

Source: Washington Post January 20, 2020 06:00 UTC