Remember Dr. King and the countless other civil rights warriors on this holiday by safely going out into your community, embracing and acting on a single word: service.
Young men and women in places like Gary, East Chicago, the South and West sides of Chicago are growing up surrounded by violence.Â
Senior Pastor Anthony Williams, of Martin Luther King Jr. Community Church in Dolton, stood in front of Gary City Hall with Gary Mayor Jerome Prince on Thursday carrying a message we all need to hear. Gary, Indiana, has been affected by structural violence, Williams said. You know what redlining is? That s a form of violence. You know why I can t get a bank loan? It ain t my credit. . We got to work on civility.
Williams and his supporters are en route to Washington, D.C.