Pictured are Civil Rights Icon, television commentator and former presidential candidate the Rev. Al Sharpton, who leads the National Action Network, Rev. Dr. E. Theophillus Caviness, senior pastor at Greater Abyssinia Baptist Church in Cleveland and president of the greater Cleveland board of the National Action Network (NAN), and Marcia McCoy, president of the Greater Cleveland NAN.

 

CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio-The National Action Network Greater Cleveland Chapter will host its 19th Annual Four-Part Empowerment Event of a noon luncheon, 4 pm anniversary march, free after march community program, and 6pm dinner and recognition program, all in commemoration of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King  Jr., on Thursday, April 4, 2019 at the Greater Abyssinia Baptist Church, 1161 East 105th Street, Cleveland, Ohio 44108.

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For more information contact organizer Marcia McCoy at (216) 374-0913.

The late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther Jr,. a Civil Rights icon and the founder of the Southern Christan Leadership Conference, was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee 51 years ago on April 4, 1968

The New York-based National Action Network (NAN) is led by its founder and president, the Rev. Al Sharpton, also a Civil Rights Icon, radio and television commentator, and a former presidential candidate.

The Rev Dr. E. Theophilus Caviness, senior pastor at Greater Abyssinia Baptist Church, one of Cleveland's most prominent Black churches, and who marched with Dr. King, is the chair of the Cleveland Chapter Southern Christian Leadership Conference and president of the greater Cleveland board of NAN. And Marcia McCoy, also a community activist, is president of the greater Cleveland Chapter of NAN.

Sharpton will not be in attendance, organizers said.

The noon luncheon is $25 per person, which will be followed by a 4pm march, and , after that, an open-to the public and free program after the march.

A 6 pm dinner at $26 per person, where a host of community leaders will be recognized , will follow the free community program.

Keynote speakers for the luncheon program are Dr. Thelma T. Daley, national director of Women in the NAACP (WIN), and the first woman to chair the National Advisory Council on Career Education, and the Rev. Dr Willie Gable Jr., senior pastor at Progressive Baptist Church in New Orleans

Community leaders to be recognized at the 6pm dinner as NAN'S 2019 Humanitarian and Warrior for Justice Honorees include Ohio Supreme Court Justice Melody Stewart, the first Black and first Black female elected justice of that court, Cleveland 19 Action News Reporter and Anchorman Harry Boomer, Lucretia Bolden, Dr. Jacklyn Chisholm, Evette Clark, Danielle Edwards, Victoria Trasher, Black on Black Crime activist Ernie Harris, reporter Rhonda Crowder, Dr. Alex Johnson, Chief of Communications, Government & International Affairs for the City of Cleveland Valerie J. McCall, Cleveland Police Commander Sammy Morris, Tony Sias, Bishop and Dr. Sabrina Ellis, Kim Whitley, Renee Green, Alden Jones, and Fashion by Fowlers

"We invite the community to join us as we all come together to reflect on the life and legacy of Dr King, a great humanitarian, Civil Rights mogul and gentle giant who was a pioneer who helped to shape the Civil Rights Movement in America," said McCoy.

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