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Lorenzo Sewell (born March 24, 1981) is an American non-denominational pastor and former gang leader who serves as the senior pastor at the Detroit-based 180 Church. [1] [2] He spoke on day four of the 2024 Republican National Convention, and gave one of the three benedictions at the Second inauguration of Donald Trump.
Martin Luther King Jr.'s conception of what Black Americans had to overcome was shaped by visits to Detroit that began when he was a teenager.
The Detroit Walk to Freedom, planned by Franklin and members of New Bethel, took place on June 23, 1963. The protest had 125,000 persons, was the largest civil rights demonstration in the country's history to that point, and culminated in a speech by Martin Luther King Jr. at Cobo Hall. [11] [12] [13]
The former Governor of Michigan John Swainson, who was governor from 1961 to 1962, joined with the mayor of Detroit Jerome Cavanaugh, and Martin Luther King Jr. [5] Also leading the march was Walter Reuther, president of the United Auto Workers (UAW); Billie S. Farnum, who was the State Auditor General. [5]
Bernice A. King, the youngest daughter of Martin Luther King Jr., has called out Rev. Lorenzo Sewell, the pastor who delivered President Donald Trump’s inaugural prayer, and others who she says ...
U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Detroit, speaks to a crowd during the 21st Detroit Martin Luther King Jr. Day rally and march at St. Matthew's & St. Joseph's Episcopal Church in Detroit on Monday, Jan ...
Michael King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta; he was the second of three children born to Michael King Sr. and Alberta King (née Williams). [6] [7] [8] Alberta's father, Adam Daniel Williams, [9] was a minister in rural Georgia, moved to Atlanta in 1893, [8] and became pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in the following year. [10]
March 1965: American civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King (1929 – 1968) and his wife Coretta Scott King lead a black voting rights march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital in ...