Fifty years after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., progress on civil rights often seems stalled, and the “dream” of the late civil rights leader as distant as ever. How can people of faith and good conscience make this anniversary more than “just a commemoration?” How can people from different backgrounds and origins unite around a moral center that strives for justice addressing the issues of poverty and race?
Recently, the museum released
The
Poverty Report: Memphis Since MLK
which exposes some hard facts about childhood poverty and income disparity despite educational gains in the African American community.
The MLK50 Faith Leaders will respond to the report's findings.
Join faith leaders, activists, academics, and the Moral Mondays community of Memphis for this vital conversation moderated by
Jonathan Judaken
, Professor, Rhodes College. This panel is sponsored by the Yale Divinity School.