Jan 15, 2024 · BOSTON — Today on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 95 th birthday, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) joined a coalition of nearly 100 interfaith clergy and faith leaders on a joint statement calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.

Announced on the 96-year anniversary of the birthday of FOR member Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., we cleave to the hope that Israel’s military bombardments and starvation of the people in Gaza will halt on the scheduled day of January 19, 2025, and that the hostages being held in Gaza will be returned to their families.

[Eleven days after publicly declaring his opposition to the Vietnam War in Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence, Dr. King gave this address to 125,000 protesters who had marched from New York City's Central Park to the United Nations building.

Oct 30, 2023 · The King Center calls on our national and global leaders to recognize that a cease-fire and peaceful resolution form the only pathway to prevent the killing of more Israeli and Palestinian civilians.

Oct 31, 2023 · After Amy Schumer shared a video clip on social media of Martin Luther King Jr. denouncing antisemitism and defending Israel ‘s right to exist, the civil rights icon’s daughter Bernice King took...

Jan 15, 2025 · In a nod to Martin Luther King’s historic 1963 March on Washington, several Muslim American groups have organized what they are calling a “March on Washington for Gaza” to call for a...

Dec 14, 2024 · The Progressive National Baptist Convention, the denominational home of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., publicly endorsed calls for a ceasefire in Israel-Gaza on Monday (Jan. 22). “We’re calling for a ceasefire,” Rev. David Peoples, PNBC president, announced during an event in Memphis, Tennessee.

ATLANTA (November 2, 2023) – Today, Martin Luther King, III, Chairman of the Drum Major Institute, and Arndrea Waters King, President of the Drum Major Institute, join in the global community’s urgent plea for a ceasefire in Gaza and call for immediate humanitarian relief.

Jan 19, 2025 · Andrew Harnik. FILE - People attend a wreath-laying ceremony at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial marking MLK Day in Washington, Jan. 16, 2023.

Jan 15, 2025 · The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. He chose that location in part to honor President Abraham Lincoln as “a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today.”