Family of Martin Luther King Jr. leads 'Peace March' in Washington, calling for the passage of voting rights reform legislation, now stalled in US Senate
Participants, including Martin Luther King III , walk across the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge to mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day during the Peace Walk in Washington, DC on January 17, 2022.
Americans must commit to the unfinished work of Martin Luther King Jr., delivering jobs and justice and protecting "the sacred right to vote, a right from which all other rights flow," President Joe Biden said on Monday. Pews have been packed by politicians in past years, but given the pandemic, many offered pre-recorded speeches instead.This holiday marks what would have been the 93rd birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., who was just 39 when he was assassinated in 1968 while helping sanitation workers strike for better pay and workplace safety in Memphis, Tennessee.
"In Georgia and across our nation, anti-voter laws are being passed that could make it more difficult for as many as 55 million Americans to vote ... that is one out of six people in our country," Vice President Kamala Harris said. Senator Warnock, now running for reelection as Georgia's first Black senator, said in his speech to the sparse crowd at Ebenezer that "everybody loves Dr. King, they just don’t always love what he represents."
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