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Saturday, December 22, 2012

2013 MLK Celebration Augusta, GA: Civil Rights Icon Rev. Dr. Joseph Lowery is the Keynote Speaker for the 2013 Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration sponsored by the Progressive Religious Coalition of Augusta

Civil Rights Icon Rev. Dr. Joseph Lowery is the Keynote Speaker for the 2013 Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration in Augusta, GA sponsored by the Progressive Religious Coalition of Augusta

"Why Dr. King Still Matters"

The 2013 annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration in Augusta, GA will be held at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, January 15, 2013 (Music begins at 6:45 PM) at the First Baptist Church of Augusta, GA (3500 Walton Way).

"Keeping the Dream Alive"
 
The 2013 Keynote Speaker is Georgia civil rights legend Rev. Dr. Joseph Lowery, the 91-year-old human rights legend is affectionately Known as “The Dean of the Civil Rights Movement.”

Among many honors and duties, Dr. Lowery is Chair Emeritus of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the Convener & Founder of the Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda, and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Join the CSRA interfaith community for music and for words of hope and challenge (A reception follows).

The annual MLK observance is an Interfaith Service offered by the Progressive Religious Coalition of Augusta



Rev. Dr. Joseph Lowery:

The Joseph E. Lowery Institute for Justice and Human Rights at Clark Atlanta University
http://www.loweryinstitute.org

The Joseph E. Lowery Institute for Justice and Human Rights at Clark Atlanta University
P.O. Box 92801
Atlanta, GA
30314

www.loweryinstitute.org
1-404-524-8406 (Office)
1-404-524-8408 (fax)
mwomack@loweryinstitute.org

Mission To Malawi: A Teen-To-Teen Aids Education Program
http://www.loweryinstitute.org/malawi.html

Lowery Mentoring Initiative: Becoming Agents of Change Program Overview
http://www.loweryinstitute.org/mentoring.html

Rev. Dr. Joseph Lowery, SCLC president (1977-1997)

SCLC on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Christian_Leadership_Conference

SCLC on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Southern-Christian-Leadership-Conference/108029119218154

Rev. Dr. Joseph Lowery on Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lowery

Rev. Dr. Joseph E. Lowery: The Fight for Racial Equality
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/01/prweb4966344.htm

The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC):
http://www.sclcnational.org

Dr. Joseph Lowery delivers Inauguration Benediction for Barack Obama
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pEH37JIgBU

Rev. Dr. Joseph Lowery at Coretta Scott King Funeral
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3j9ltp1qM8

Rev. Dr. Joseph Lowery at Rosa Parks Funeral
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yBwjrUhmdI

Rev. Dr. Joseph Lowery Lithonia, GA Feb. 2006 includes Coretta Scott King Funeral
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAPazgULt-k

A Delta Salute To The “Dean of the Civil Rights Movement” Rev. Dr. Joseph Lowery: A Human Rights Icon
http://blog.delta.com/2010/06/10/a-delta-salute-to-the-%E2%80%98dean-of-the-civil-rights-movement%E2%80%99-dr-joseph-lowery-a-human-rights-icon
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Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Making it Happen in Wadley, Georgia: A beautiful example of embracing the "Claiming A Street Named King" Project

Wadley, Georgia: Residents do a wonderful job enacting the "Claiming A Street Named King" Project







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Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Athens, Georgia: "Claiming A Street Named King" 2007 Final Report for the Georgia Clients Council, the Georgia Legal Services Program and others about MLK Parkway in Athens, GA submitted by Prof. Dr. Mary Anne Alabanza Akers of the University of Georgia School of Environmental Design

"Claiming A Street Named King"

2007 "Claiming A Street Named King" Final Report for Georgia Clients Council about MLK Parkway in Athens, GA

Above is a 56-page report on "Claiming A Street Named King" 2007 study and analysis of MLK Parkway in Athens, Georgia submitted to Georgia Clients Council.

The report was conducted by Dr. Mary Anne Alabanza Akers, Associate Professor at the University of Georgia School of Environmental Design.

Claiming A Street Named King: An economic effort by the Georgia Clients Council, Georgia Legal Services Programs and others "to make good on King’s promise" by creating "livable streets" one community at a time

It's time to take studies like these in Athens and Augusta and find economic development opportunities on streets named for civil rights leaders in Georgia and across the United States of America

If we can invest in bombs, surely we can invest in America’s inner cities and other locations that stand for our country's heritage.

In many communities, the inner cities and streets named for Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. are being forgotten and are dying a slow death.
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Monday, January 30, 2012

Claiming A Street Named King: A Project Based on the Vision of MLK With a Goal of "Empowering Our Communities" by Author/Professor Dr. Derek H. Alderman of East Carolina University

About 900 Streets Across the United States of America are Named for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Claiming A Street Named King" Project uses the vision of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as a Community Development Model in Reclaiming Streets Named After MLK:

"The Beloved Community"

"Economic Justice"

"Community Empowerment"

"Livable Cities"

"Sense of Place/Belonging"


Atlanta, GA: Author/Professor Dr. Derek H. Alderman Talks About the "Claiming A Street Named King" Project ...


(Atlanta, Georgia) - In September 2010, Author/Professor Dr. Derek H. Alderman explained facets of the "Claiming A Street Named King" Project during a Power Point presentation entitled "Empowering Our Communities" during a Georgia Clients Council event in Atlanta, Georgia.

Professor Alderman is a research fellow at East Carolina University and a geographer who has helped work on a plan for the redevelopment of the Martin Luther King Jr. boulevards.

The goal is to “improve the condition of boulevards named after Martin Luther King, Jr. across Georgia” and the nation.

Of the 900 streets named for civil rights legend MLK, over 78 percent are located in 10 south states: Georgia, Texas, Mississippi, Florida, Louisiana, Alabama, North Carolina, Arkansas, South Carolina, Kentucky.

Streets named for Dr. King are located in 40 states, DC and Puerto Rico.

“To name any street for King is to invite an accounting of how the street makes good on King’s promise or mocks it,” said Author Jonathan Tilove, who wrote the book “Along Martin Luther King: Travels on Black America's Main Street.”

Labeled by the media as a “King Street naming expert,” Dr. Alderman has written numerous formal papers like "Martin Luther King, Jr. Streets in the South: A New Landscape of Memory” and co-wrote a book about the naming of streets for the slain civil rights leader entitled “Civil Rights Memorials and the Geography of Memory.”

“King streets commemorate the civil rights movement as a completed part of the past, but they speak, perhaps more importantly, to the still unfinished nature of the dream,” Alderman said.

He said the project is using Dr. King’s Vision as a Community Development Model in reclaimed streets named after Dr. King:

“The Beloved Community, Economic Justice, Community Empowerment, Livable Cities, Sense of Place/Belonging.”

For a community to develop a grassroots revitalization plan, it must first understand its strengths, assets and opportunities, as well as its problems and challenges, Alderman said.

Through community-based research, residents are able to interpret the information and use it to take proactive steps towards improving their conditions, Alderman said.

Dr. Derek H. Alderman, PhD is a Professor of Geography at East Carolina University, where he is also a Research Fellow in Cultural and Heritage Tourism in the Center for Sustainable Tourism.

Dr. Alderman’s research focuses on the naming of streets for Martin Luther King, Jr. and the political struggles that frequently surround the naming process.

He focuses on how the struggle to name roads for King is part of a broader fight for public space in American cities and extensions of the ongoing struggle for civil rights and livability.

Alderman has a broader interest in economic and social empowerment through African American heritage tourism and how tourist places and spaces serve as arenas for the negotiation of identity, place, and memory within communities.

Organizers hope the project will inspire others to start similar efforts along other streets named for human rights leaders like Coretta Scott King, Muhammad Ali, Jesse Jackson, Grace Lee Boggs, Cesar Chavez, Nelson Mandela and Mr. James Brown, according to Project Founder Rev. Terence A. Dicks of Augusta, Georgia.


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Friday, January 27, 2012

AOL News Story about the Claiming A Street Named King Project entitled "MLK, USA: Many King Streets Stuck on Economic Outskirts" by Stefanos Chen

"Claiming A Street Named King" Project

MLK, USA: Many King Streets Stuck on Economic Outskirts


| By Stefanos Chen | Posted Jan 17th 2012 3:48PM 
martin luter king jrTwenty-six years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was first honored with a holiday, his legacy has flourished -- and not just in the annals of history. Today, there are more than an estimated 900 streets in America that bear the civil rights leader's name.

But even as the memory of King remains at the heart of American discourse, many of his namesake streets are drifting further to the social and economic periphery.

"There tends to be a marginalization of King's name," Derek Alderman, professor of geography at East Carolina University, told AOL Real Estate. Alderman, who has spent the better part of a decade chronicling the number of streets named after the slain civil rights leader, has encountered the paradox many times before -- beloved as the man may be, in real estate, some homebuyers and store owners ascribe a kind of stigma to the name.

Using Realtor.com's database of homes on the market, an analysis of properties on Martin Luther King Jr. streets lends some credence to that view. In 2010, the median list price for homes with "Martin Luther King Jr." in the address was $79,900. By 2011, it had fallen to $69,900, a 12.5 percent decrease. The U.S. median list price was more than twice that last year, at $170,000, and saw only a 4.7 percent drop in the same period, according to the National Association of Realtors. (In the gallery below, see a random sampling of homes on MLK streets.)

Albuquerque, N.M.Denver, Colo.Greensboro, N.C.Chapel Hill, N.C.Chattanooga, Tenn.

In many ways, Alderman said, it's a case of perception becoming reality. Residents and business owners oppose the renaming of thriving streets because of an unfounded fear that the civil rights leader's name may hurt property value. Instead, the commemorations of King, who was assassinated in 1968, are often quite literally pushed to the margins of town, on streets of communities that are already economically challenged.

"When a street's name means something [to property value] it's because of the location," said Alice Palmisano, executive director of Brown Harris Stevens Appraisal & Consulting Co. in New York City. "Park Avenue means something because it's in a great neighborhood," not because the name has some intrinsic real estate value.

Compounding the problem for many of these predominantly African-American communities was the rampant predatory lending that plagued poorer neighborhoods during the sub-prime mortgage run-up. In fact, the Justice Department is now seeking to repay more than 200,000 minority borrowers who were steered toward high-interest subprime loans when many qualified for better terms. The search is part of a historic $335 million discriminatory lending settlement levied against Bank of America's Countrywide Financial unit.

But to write off the more than 900 streets that pay homage to King as "struggling" would be wide of the mark, said the Rev. Terence Dicks, project director of the "Claiming a Street Named King" program in Augusta, Ga.

There are several prominent examples of MLK streets with healthy economies and rich cultural legacies, such as the ones in New York City, Austin and, of course, King's hometown of Atlanta. But Dicks' project aims to take an accounting of the problems faced by MLK throughways that continue to face economic hardship.

"I want to see an area meant for bad, used for good," he said, referring to the stigma accompanying many of the streets -- especially when King's legacy is at stake. "Young people do not remember Dr. King as well as they should," and the negativity being attributed to the streets named in his honor is not helping matters.

Alderman, who has collaborated with the grassroots project, echoes his sentiment.

"There's just no way that Martin Luther King's name causes poverty."
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Thursday, January 19, 2012

About 700 people packed the Reid Memorial Presbyterian Church in Augusta, GA for the 2012 interfaith celebration of the birth and life of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. entitled "Keeping the Dream Alive: Why Dr. King Still Matters" and sponsored by the Progressive Religious Coalition of Augusta




Leaders from 10 faith communities participated in the 2012 interfaith MLK Day celebration in Augusta, Georgia.

Keynote Speaker

Rev. Dr. Raphael Gamaliel Warnock of the Ebenezer Baptist Church of Atlanta delivers the keynote address in Augusta, Georgia at the 2012 interfaith celebration of the life of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Historic Ebenezer Baptist Church is the home church of MLK.

Photos from Thursday, January 12, 2012 by Mr. James Dobbs, Augusta Chronicle Photographer

Turnout was heartwarming as about 700 people packed the Reid Memorial Presbyterian Church in Augusta, Georgia for the 2012 interfaith celebration of the birth and life of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in an event that explained the lasting relevance of the slain civil rights leader.

Leaders from 10 faith communities took part in the interfaith event entitled:

“Keeping the Dream Alive: Why Dr. King Still Matters”

Music was provided by the Augusta Chorale and the Davidson Fine Arts Chorale.

Scroll down to the music-related photos for more information on both groups.

"Invocations from Different Faith Traditions" were delivered by Rabbi Robert Klensin of the Congregation Children of Israel in Augusta, Imam Majed Sabke of the Islamic Society of Augusta, and Rev. Terence A. Dicks for the St. Johns Missionary Baptist Church in Brunswick, GA.

The annual MLK celebration and interfaith service is sponsored by the Progressive Religious Coalition of Augusta.

You can read the entire program bulletin at the end of this story - and click on the pages to read them full size.


Augusta 2012 interfaith MLK celebration

Pictured above left to right during the 2012 MLK celebration at Reid Memorial Presbyterian Church in Augusta, Georgia are:
The Rev. Dacia Reid, Interim Minister, Unitarian Universalist Church of Augusta; Keynote speaker the Rev. Dr. Raphael Gamaliel Warnock of the Ebenezer Baptist Church of Atlanta; and the Rev. Terence A. Dicks, St. Johns Missionary Baptist Church in Brunswick, GA and Chair Steering Committee, New Tools New Vision, Augusta, GA.
Photo by Mr. James Dobbs, Augusta Chronicle Photographer.

The keynote address was delivered by the Rev. Dr. Raphael Gamaliel Warnock, senior pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church of Atlanta - home church of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Click on the following link to see more of these nice photos of the 2012 MLK event in Augusta, GA by Mr. James Dobbs, Augusta Chronicle Photographer:


Below are media coverage links including a well-received Augusta Chronicle newspaper story, photos and video of the 2012 celebration of the birthday and accomplishments of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Thurs., Jan. 12, 2012 newspaper story is headlined:

“Pastor of Martin Luther King Jr.'s home church compares him to an unfinished symphony” by Ms. Kelly Jasper, staff writer for the Augusta Chronicle.

Below is an Augusta Chronicle video produced by Sara Caldwell.


I would like to thank the many people involved in making the event a reality and for the media coverage.

Link to WFXG Fox 54 Augusta news story and coverage of the interfaith event to celebrate the birth and the lasting life accomplishments of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.:

“Different faiths gather to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.”


AUGUSTA, GA (WFXG) - Hundreds of people of all different faiths came together to honor the life of a man who helped make it all possible.

Worshipers of all different faiths joined at the Reid Memorial Presbyterian Church to listen to celebrate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Reverend Dr. Raphael Warnock, who is the Senior Pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta where Dr. King preached a message of tolerance and acceptance, gave a sermon with a similar theme in Augusta.

A message that brought together Christians, Muslims, Jews, Hindus and several other religions, all to celebrate as one.

Below are more of the photos by Mr. James Dobbs of the Augusta Chronicle:
Pictured is Imam Majed Sabke, Islamic Society of Augusta, GA. 
Pictured above is Imam Majed Sabke, Islamic Society of Augusta, GA.
 
Pictured is the Rev. Terence A. Dicks, St. Johns Missionary Baptist Church in Brunswick, GA and Chair Steering Committee, New Tools New Visions, Augusta, GA.
Rev. Dicks is delivering one of the "Invocations from Different Faith Traditions."
Additional invocations were delivered by Rabbi Robert Klensin of the Congregation Children of Israel in Augusta and Imam Majed Sabke of the Islamic Society of Augusta.
Photos by Mr. James Dobbs, Augusta Chronicle Photographer.
 
Music was provided by the Augusta Chorale and the Davidson Fine Arts Chorale.
Homepage of the Augusta Chorale:
http://www.augustachorale.org
About the the Augusta Chorale:
http://www.augustachorale.org/aboutus.htm
 
Homepage of the Davidson Fine Arts Chorale in Augusta, GA:
http://www.thedavidsonchorale.org
About the Davidson Fine Arts Chorale:
http://www.thedavidsonchorale.org/index.php?id=8
MySpace page of the Davidson Fine Arts Chorale in Augusta, GA:
http://www.myspace.com/dfachorale
Photos by Mr. James Dobbs, Augusta Chronicle Photographer.
The following is the official bulletin for the 2012 interfaith celebration of the birth and life of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Jan. 12, 2012 at Reid Memorial Presbyterian Church in Augusta, Georgia:


Bulletin for the 2012 interfaith celebration of the birth and life of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Augusta, Georgia Page #3
Bulletin for the 2012 interfaith celebration of the birth and life of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Augusta, Georgia Page #1
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