The rally will be a virtual rally in the form of a Zoom webinar. The rally will also be accessible live on Zoom, YouTube and Facebook. As more details become available, they will be posted here and on Facebook at https://fb.me/e/20aeuAvWw

Register in advance for this Zoom webinar:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_f7R1w_ZPTUyaX8WwlS6XAQ

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

RALLY LINEUP:

One Single Rose
Acknowledgement of the Land
Sylvia Orduno, Detroit Water Struggle
Wardell Montgomery, poet
Lloyd Simpson, People Against Corporate Takeover
Line 5 struggle
Sarah Torres, musician
Toyia, Charlevoix Villages Association, housing/geentrification
Rev. Pinkney, water crisis in Benton Harbor
Joe Kidd and Sheila Burke, musician
Yasmine, Palestinian Youth Movement
Jesús Rodríguez-Espinoza, Orinoco Tribune, Venezuela
Brittini Ward
Kate McCabe, 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday
Darryl Jordan, EMEAC, Climate Struggle
Allen Dennard Trio
Anti-war, anti-imperilist talk, Rev. Bill
Iman Saleh – Yemeni Liberation Movement
Bilal, poet
Jorge Parra, ASTOTRECOL, fired General Motors of Columbia worker
Yvonne, retiree proposal from DAREA & Moratorium NOW
Keynote: Katherine Flowers, Lowndes County, COP26
close with Jae Bass recording

18th Annual Detroit MLK Day

Virtual Rally & Cultural Program

Program starts at noon

Streamed online through YouTube at https://youtu.be/7q7QdR5DSDI   

This year’s 18th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration comes at a time of the worst public health crisis in more than a century. At present we are facing the threat of yet another economic downturn.

Concurrently, there are rising tensions between the United States and other countries around the world including China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, Zimbabwe, among others. A U.S.-led war anywhere in the world would prove catastrophic to the majority of people inside the country and internationally.

In honor of the peace and social justice legacy of Dr. King we are calling on all conscious people in southeastern Michigan and beyond to join this virtual event. Dr. King during the last year of his life was a staunch opponent of the Vietnam War. King linked the rising rates of impoverishment with the failure of the ruling interests to end imperialist military adventures and occupations. He drew the connections that made him a target for the ruling class of his day. We owe it to his legacy to continue this work into the 21st century.Due to the COVID-19 pandemic we are holding the entire program virtually. The event will be streamed utilizing Facebook, Zoom and YouTube. Although we are not gathering in-person, the online character of the event provides the opportunity to invite guests from around the U.S. and the world.

17th Annual MLK Day

Rally and March for “Jobs, Peace & Justice”

Monday, January 20, 2020

Historic St. Matthew’s & St. Joseph’s Episcopal Church

12 Noon – Rally

1:30 PM – March through the North End

8850 Woodward, Detroit 48202
(between King and Holbrook)

2:45 PM – Community meal, poetry and music (following the march) at
St. Matthew’s & St. Joseph’s Episcopal Church

2020 MLK Detroit leaflet

2020 MLK Detroit poster 13×19

March Route

1. Marchers exit St. Matthew/St. Joseph Episcopal Church at 1;30 PM and gather on King Street, just east of Woodward Ave.

2. March steps off at about 2:00 PM westbound on King St., crossing Woodward Avenue and continuing west on Gladstone St.

3. Turning north onto Second Ave. March continues north on Second Ave. to Clairmount Street.

4. March turns east onto Clairmount St., crossing Woodward Ave. and continuing east on Owen St. until Oakland St.

5. March turns south onto Oakland St. using right hand lane until it reaches King St.

6. March turns west onto King St. and continues to St. Matthew/St. Joseph Episcopal Church, where marchers will then re-enter the church.

Due to the extremely cold weather, the annual march has been cancelled. The indoor rally will be extended and the community meal and cultural event will take place as planned.

Rally and March for “Jobs, Peace & Justice”

Monday, January 21, 2019
12 Noon – 2:30 PM

Please note the NEW LOCATION

St. Matthew’s St. Joseph’s Episcopal Church

8850 Woodward, Detroit 48202
(between King and Holbrook)

2:45 PM – Community meal, poetry and music (following march) at
St. Matthew’s St. Joseph’s Episcopal Church

2019 MLK Detroit leaflet

2019 MLK Detroit poster

Rally and March for “Jobs, Peace & Justice”

Monday, January 15, 2018
12 Noon

Central United Methodist Church
23 E. Adams and Woodward, Detroit

Special Guest Speaker: Rev. Dr.  Bernard Lafayette, Special Assistant to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Schedule:

Noon – Rally at Central United Methodist Church

1:30 pm – Freedom March through downtown Detroit

3:00 pm – Community meal, poetry and music, at St. John’s Episcopal Church, I-75 & Woodward Avenue, Detroit

St. John’s Episcopal Church is located north of the parking lot that is next to the Central United Methodist Church.

Download palm card and poster:   2018 MLK Detroit palm card v2    MLK Day 2018 poster

50th Anniversary Detroit 1967 Rebellion Forum and Bus Tour

Saturday, July 22, 2017

St. Matthew’s-St. Joseph’s Episcopal Church
8850 Woodward, Detroit, MI 48202

9:30am – Noon: Breakfast Forum
Noon – 4:00pm: Bus tour to see historic sites during July 1967 Rebellion

July 23 represents the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Rebellion in Detroit. The five days of events had a profound impact on the history of the African American Civil Rights and Black Power movements as well as shifting the character of politics in the United States as a hold.

Join the Detroit Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Committee for a day of commemorative discussion and a tour on Sat. July 22. The event is designed to provide an accurate perspective on the social conditions that spawned the Rebellion and its influence on historical developments in Detroit, the U.S. and internationally over the last five decades.

We will open with a community breakfast at St. Matthew’s-St. Joseph’s Episcopal Church beginning at 9:30 am. At 10:00 we will hear presentations by Dorothy Aldridge, chair of the MLK Committee, who was a Civil Rights and Community activist in 1967; Dan Aldridge, another well-known activist in the city since the 1960s; Aurora Harris, a member of the MLK Committee, a poet and higher education instructor; and Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire, and a co-founder of the Annual MLK Day Rally & March held in the city since 2004.

Please RSVP for the tour since seating will be limited. We are requesting a $20 donation for the breakfast and tour. If people are unable to give $20 any amount is acceptable. No one will be turned away due to lack of funds. Mail check or money order to Detroit MLK Committee, 5920 Second Ave., Detroit, MI 48202.

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Rally and March for “Jobs, Peace & Justice”

Monday, January 16, 2017
12 Noon

Central United Methodist Church
23 E. Adams and Woodward, Detroit

Schedule:

Noon – Rally at Central United Methodist Church

1:30 pm – Freedom March through downtown Detroit

3:00 pm – Community meal, poetry and music, at St. John’s Episcopal Church.

            Please note the NEW LOCATION:

St. John’s Episcopal Church
I-75 & Woodward Avenue, Detroit

This church is located north of the parking lot that is next to the Central United Methodist Church.

This year’s 14th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Rally & March comes at a time of rising hatred, bigotry and military conflict both inside the United States and around the world.

On Monday January 16, 2017, the Detroit MLK Day Rally & March will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the historic Riverside Church address in New York City entitled “Beyond Vietnam: Breaking the Silence”, where Dr. King came out firmly against military intervention in southeast Asia.

The speech was delivered on April 4, 1967, just one year prior to the Civil Rights and peace activist’s assassination in Memphis, Tennessee. Dr. King had been under pressure by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) which had taken a firm position against the war in early January 1966. During 1967, Dr. King participated in large antiwar demonstrations in Chicago, New York City and other cities.

In addition, 2017 represents the 50th anniversary of the July 23-27 Detroit Rebellion. These days of civil unrest marked the largest of such outbreaks in the history of the U.S. up until that time period.

Dr. King, who remained a proponent of nonviolent resistance to racism and oppression until his death, did not condemn the rebellions which struck over 160 cities during 1967. He stated that “riots were the voices of the unheard.” He emphasized that the federal government needed to heed the calls of African Americans and other oppressed peoples for social justice in order to avoid a much more profound social calamity. Today, some five decades later, the problems of institutional racism, police brutality, poverty and the exorbitant Pentagon budget remain impediments to the country becoming a genuinely democratic society.

Speakers at the rally and march will represent the various movements operating in Detroit related to water shut-offs, property tax foreclosures, joblessness, poverty, and governmental indifference to the suffering of the people. The message of Dr. King and the Civil Rights Movement is still as relevant if not more so than it was in the 1960s.