The Nyack chapter of the NAACP held their 41st interfaith commemorative service yesterday at the Pilgrim Baptist Church in Nyack to honor the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Junior. The featured speaker was the Reverend Dr. Tyree Anderson of the First Baptist Church of Ensley in Birmingham, Alabama. Dr. Anderson lamented while many know of Dr. King’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech from 1963, other causes for which he fought sometimes get forgotten…
Nyack NAACP President Nicole Hines said housing and education issues tend to forget the black community…
The Baptist Ministers Conference of Greater New York and Vicinity held their annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration in the city yesterday. It was held at Convent Avenue Baptist Church, and Governor Kathy Hochul noted, it was the last New York Church at which he would speak before he was assassinated in 1968…
King was fatally shot by James Earl Ray on April 4th, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee. A federal holiday honoring him was first observed in 1986.