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Official Book Launch of “Desert Rose: The Life and Legacy of Coretta Scott King”
Thursday, April 26th, 2012The Pro-Life Movement Needs Your Help
Monday, March 12th, 2012
The fight to end abortion is intensifying and everyone who is pro-life needs to also be an activist. Sitting on the sidelines and saying I’m pro-life is not helping to end abortion. We need you to put your words into action. I invite everyone to sign on to The Beloved Community and the Unborn letter at:
http://www.priestsforlife.org/africanamerican/beloved-community-and-the-unborn.htm
Let us know that you are with us. Let the politicians know that we need to protect all life.
Every life has value. Every life is precious. Every life is a gift.
“And a little child shall lead them.”
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012Isaiah 11:7
Alveda’s Grandson and Cousin at the MLK Monument in DC
As a little girl, I would hear the scripture, “train up a child in the ways he (or she) should go, and when he (or she) grows up, he (or she) won’t depart from them. Please check out this video of my grandson Uriah Ellis and cousin Farris Watkins at the King Memorial. You can be assured that they are being trained about the sanctity of life too!
Love Never Fails
Monday, February 27th, 2012
Often, people ask me the most impactful message my Uncle Martin Luther (M.L.) made that touched my life. His message of universal Agape Love has always resonated for me. When I ask people what basic requirements people have to sustain life, generally the answer is food, shelter, water and clothing; not necessarily in that order. When I explain that these basic elements are necessary, there is one essential that is often overlooked: LOVE. Notice that the point here is Agape Love, not eros (sex and romance), not even philia (affection, friendship). Now abides faith, hope and love; the greatest of these is AGAPE (LOVE) – God’s love.
Babies are conceived/fertilized in the process of human acts that bring sperms and eggs together. Sometimes, these are acts involved in expression of romantic love, but not always. Even so – whether eros, philia or agape are involved or not – the babies, once conceived and fertilized, are persons, human beings. Some people even suggest that abortion is an act of love and mercy, because in their minds abortions rescue babies from possible lives of sickness or poverty, etc. Well, the fruit of such thinking can nurture some unexpected outcomes. For example, what about the people who kill people after they are born because they can’t feed them, or clothe them? Where does it ever end?
In the midst of a controversial lecture series recently, I made the point that AGAPE LOVE is the primary human element that is often missing in life. When you get a moment, check out a report from that visit here.
Have a great and blessed week!
BLUE SKIES AND BUTTERFLIES by EARTHA SIMS, NAOMI KING AND ALVEDA KING
Saturday, February 18th, 2012
An A. D. King Foundation Production – www.adkingfoundation.com
Naomi Barber King leads a life of grace and compassion in a world where unsung heroines go unnoticed by many, while touching lives and changing hearts in the highways and byways of communities in need of love. Born on November 17, 1931 to a single mother, Bessie Barber Bailey, Naomi was raised as “an only child” in a sheltered and protected environment. Naomi’s mother was a domestic worker who gave her daughter the best in nurture, clothing, education and spiritual development. Naomi was educated in Atlanta public schools. She was a notable student, winning awards for writing and music. She was active in church and community projects, and was popular and respected by her peers. he also worked part time as a print and runway model. Naomi attended Spelman College in Atlanta for one year prior to her marriage to A. D. Williams King, Sr., youngest son of Martin Luther, Sr. and Alberta King. She later attended the University of Alabama where she studied interior design.
During their marriage, A. D. accepted “the call” to ministry, following in the footsteps of his grandfather, Rev. A. D. Williams, his father, Dr. Martin Luther King, Sr., and his brother, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. As the wife of a prominent minister, who promptly joined his brother in the Civil Rights Struggle, Naomi blossomed as a mother of five. She advanced in her ministry as first lady of the prominent churches, Mt. Vernon First Baptist in Newnan, GA; First Baptist Ensley, Birmingham, ALA, Zion Baptist Church in Louisville, KY, and Ebenezer Baptists Church in Atlanta, GA, where her husband ministered during his lifetime.
“First Lady,” as Naomi was affectionately called by the faithful flocks, assisted her husband, Dr. Alfred Daniel Williams King “first and foremost by helping to raise our children.” Her mastery of the social graces cause this trend setter to be remembered and sought after for her cooking, A-1 hostess presentations, and event planning. Along with being the anchor in the home while her husband “risked his life to fight for the freedom of the oppressed,” Naomi also sang at concerts to raise funds for the “Movement,” served as a “Women’s Day Speaker” at churches to which she was invited, and organized “teas and prayer circle activities” which helped to stabilize the communities. A. D. and “Neenie” shared a life of trials and triumphs, which she fondly remembers as “a love story.” Dr. A. D. King was a “victim of the racism of the times. Working closely with his brother, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, A. D.’s home and church were bombed, and he experienced many death threats. His death remains an unsolved mystery.” Naomi King is currently a consulting producer for a theatrical documentary and feature film regarding the life and legacy of her heroic husband.
Her professional accomplishments include Citizens Trust Bank, Bank of Louisville, interior decorating and design, managing the King Center gift shop, and serving as a “devoted and privileged traveling companion to my sister-in-law, Mrs. Coretta Scott King.” Mrs. King holds awards and special recognition, such as recipient of the S. C. L. C. Rosa Parks Award, King for America Truth Finder Award, featured in the AARP documentary “Voices of Civil Rights, and holds memberships in NAACP, SCLC, Priests for Life, Women of SCLC, SCLC Women, and American Bridge Association. She is a recognized author and is noted for her devotion to her God, her family and her church.
Mrs. King is the mother of Dr. Alveda King, Alfred King (deceased), Rev. Derek King, Darlene King (deceased), and Rev. Vernon King. She is currently grandmother of 16 (5 deceased); and great grandmother of 6. She is a lifelong member of Ebenezer Baptist Church. “I love the Lord with all of my heart, soul, body and mind – when troubles rise, I hasten to His throne where I find safety and peace in His loving arms! Amen and Amen.”
EARTHA SIMS has an extensive commitment and involvement with Gospel, Jazz, and R&B music recordings, and performances, including concert stages andcabarets nationally and internationally. She is a gifted Actress & Vocalist, Assistant Manager and Artist USO and European Tours, Manager/Director/Playwright/Lyricist/Instructor, Founder & First President of Alpha Gamma Omicron Theatre HonorSociety, APO, and Event Planner.
Eartha was born in Atlanta, Georgia to a musically literate AWARD WINNING and PERFORMING family, AND SINCE THE AGE OF FIVE HAS RECORDED AND PERFORMED ON STAGE WITH GREATS LIKE AL GREEN, ISAAC HAYES, THE ATLANTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA WITH MR. ROBERT SHAW, THE S.O.S. BAND, ARISTA RECORDS, MOTOWN AND MANY OTHERS. She attended the internationally known Spelman College as a Vocal Music major and graduated from Kennesaw State University with a B.A. in Theatre Performance Studies and Musical Theatre.
EARTHA’S TRAINING FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY KNOWN SPELMAN COLLEGE GLEE CLUB AND KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY INTENSIFIED HER ARTISTRY IN PERFORMANCES SUCH AS DUKE ELLINGTON’S SOPHISTICATED LADIES AND MANY MORE MUSICAL THEATRE PERFORMANCES.EARTHA SIMS HAS CHOREOGRAPHED, performed, and co-managed THE EURO-SUPREMES, THE SOUND OF THE SUPREMES, AND THE DIVAS OF MOTOWN FOR TEN YEARS TRAVELING EUROPE AND ASIA. AFTER RECEIVING HER B.A. IN Theatre Performance Studies and MUSICAL THEATRE, SHE IS NOW PRODUCING PLAYS and Independent Short Films LOCALLY IN THE ATLANTA AREA.
Remembering Uncle Martin
Monday, January 16th, 2012
By Dr. Alveda C. King
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was Pro-Life
If you would like to learn more aobut his stance on life, please visit MLK & Planned Parenthood Part 1 and MLK & Planned Parenthood Part 2.
In the midst of television, Skype, radio and print interviews this week leading up to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and the March for Life the week after, the media enjoys asking “what would Dr. King say about…?”
What would Dr. MLK say about Michelle Obama being an angry black woman? Uncle M. L. would pray for President Obama and First Lady Obama. I believe that because Uncle M. L. was a preacher, he would encourage the First Lady to “be angry and sin not.” Dr. MLK wanted people to love each other, not label and divide each other. As to being angry? Maybe Mrs. Obama should be angry about the high numbers of abortions in America especially due to the harm being done to Black women and Black babies by the abortion industry. Maybe as a mother she should be angry about the high rates of school drop outs. Maybe she should be angry about the high rates of women in the welfare system today. Maybe my saying this makes me an angry Black woman?
I believe Uncle M. L. would support personhood, life from conception until natural death. I believe he would be shocked about the high rates of abortion in the Black community, and about the money making abortion industry.
How about the Girl Scouts telling a girl she can’t wear a pro-life t-shirt in the office while she is off duty? Or telling mothers that they have no say in whether a boy can be a girl scout? Or promoting sexuality and working undercover with Planned Parenthood to promote a Happy, Healthy and Hot campaign. Actually, if you read Uncle M. L.’s Ebony Magazine Advice column, you can see that he would promote life and sexual purity today.
And what about the new Barbie doll campaign for breast cancer awareness? Uncle M. L. would want women to be whole and healthy of course. I just hope that Barbie doesn’t wear the Komen pink ribbon without including the information that abortion, artificial invasive birth control methods and breast cancer are linked. We want our women whole, healthy and happy, not happy, healthy and hot.
These are just a few “hot” issues leading up to what should be a very eventful first month of the new year. We will have a major election later in the year, and I truly believe that Uncle M. L. would encourage people to elect candidates who fear God and respect life.
Friends, in remembering my uncle, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. this season, please pause to consider that he was a man of God, who feared the Lord and cherished His commandments. Like every human being, he was not perfect, but he served a perfect God. My uncle was pro-life. He was pro-family. He loved everyone.
God bless you!
Please take a moment to check out my Birthday Wish on behalf of the cause Pray to End Abortion.
Dr. Alveda King to take part in Martin Luther King Day Events
Sunday, January 15th, 2012
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Date: January 15, 2012
Contact: Leslie Palma
347-286-7277
ATLANTA – Dr. Alveda King, the full-time director of African-American Outreach for Priests for Life, will take part in events Sunday and Monday in honor of her late father, the Rev. Dr. Alfred Daniels King, and her late uncle, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Dr. Alveda King will be at book signing Sunday from 3 to 6 p.m. at the King Center Freedom Hall Auditorium, 449 Auburn Ave.
From 6 to 8:30 p.m. Sunday in the Freedom Hall, there will be a screening of the film “Brother of the Dreamer,” about her father, one of the main strategists behind many civil rights campaigns. Dr. Alveda King and her mother, Naomi Barber King, will be in attendance, and the film’s executive producer, Dr. Babs Onabanjo, will take part in a discussion.
On Monday, the official nationwide observance of Martin Luther King Day, Dr. Alveda King will join family members at a service at Ebenezer Baptist Church, 407 Auburn Ave. The service will begin with a wreath-laying at 9 a.m. The service itself, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 10 a.m.
A civil rights leader in her own right, Dr. Alveda King has been working full-time for the pro-life cause for nearly a decade. When she met Father Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, the two found themselves in agreement that “the fight for all human life, from conception until natural death, is the most pressing civil rights and human rights issue of our time.”
Dr. King has compared Father Pavone’s pro-life leadership to that of her uncle Martin.
“When my uncle was discerning the call to the civil rights movement, many of his critics said his primary focus as a pastor should be preaching the Gospel, rather than the human rights issue,” she said. “Father Pavone is a wonderful priest who has answered a call to pro-life activism and his call, like my uncle’s call, has been validated worldwide. Father Pavone is the Martin Luther King Jr. of the pro-life movement.”
To arrange an interview with Dr. King, call 347-286-7277 or send an email to media@priestsforlife.org
Priests for Life is the nation’s largest Catholic pro-life organization dedicated to ending abortion and euthanasia. For more information, visit Priests for Life.
Remembering Uncle Martin
Friday, January 13th, 2012
By Dr. Alveda C. King
Friends, in remembering my uncle, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. this season, please pause to consider that he was a man of God, who feared the Lord and cherished His commandments. Like every human being, he was not perfect, but he served a perfect God. My uncle was pro-life. He was pro-family. He loved everyone. If you would like to study his thoughts about life, please visit MLK & Planned Parenthood Part 1 and MLK & Planned Parenthood Part 2.
God bless you!
Please take a moment to check out my Birthday Wish on behalf of the cause Pray to End Abortion.
Why the Establishment Wants to Destroy Herman Cain
Thursday, November 10th, 2011By Dr. Alveda King
Published November 09, 2011 | FoxNews.com
There are two reasons the liberal media can’t get enough of the Herman Cain smear campaign:
1. They would rather report unsubstantiated allegations and gossip than report the real issues, because talking about the real issues would not be in the best interest of the president.
President Obama is traveling around the country, proposing a stimulus bill that has already failed once. Instead of having an honest discussion about whether or not a plan that already failed once will fail again, the establishment would rather distract the American people with gossip.
The amount of time spent talking about this ridiculous smear campaign while the country is in an economic crisis, shows that the liberal media’s agenda is not to keep people informed, but to keep people distracted from failed establishment economic policies.
2. The establishment is threatened by a strong conservative with such a large platform.
For many years, the Democrats have had a 90% stranglehold on the black vote. This is because many blacks feel that Republicans are racist and only care about the rich, while Democrats love them, give Blacks welfare, etc. When a strong, charismatic, BLACK conservative goes head to head with Obama, many blacks who have not yet done so will actually listen to both sides of the political argument.
They will hear Mr. Cain say that the entitlements given to them don’t help the black community. When Mr. Cain says that welfare is statistically like a disease that is passed from generation to generation, that it promotes single mothers, that it promotes a culture of helplessness and government dependency, people will listen.
When Mr. Cain says I will give you opportunities to improve your quality of life: jobs so that you don’t need government handouts to survive, that the government will teach people to fish rather than give them fish sticks…people will listen.
Mr. Cain would structurally change the voting demographic. There would be more black economic conservatives, and the Democrats would lose their stranglehold on the black vote. The establishment is threatened by that, so they will try to assassinate Mr. Cain’s character, hoping he doesn’t get the chance to go head to head with President Obama.
If the general election features two black men of opposing political views, and Black America hears an honest political debate, the establishment will lose a portion of their 90 percent stranglehold on the black vote.
Let me be very clear about what I mean when I say “the establishment.” There are people on both sides of the aisle and beyond who are disturbed by Mr. Cain’s unorthodox campaign. He rocks the proverbial boat so to speak. So, it’s not entirely about party politics. So for the purpose for this discussion, “establishment” means resistance to truth from every sector.
The establishment, which includes the Obama camp is terrified of what Mr. Cain represents.
Herman Cain is the epitome of the American dream. He grew up poor and worked his way to success, following an ethic he inherited from his father and mother, and with a degree he earned at an historically black school, Morehouse College, where my uncle, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., also was an alumnus.
Mr. Cain is the fulfillment of Uncle M. L.’s dream. He has lived the black American experience in the South. By the content of his character, not the color of his skin, he has studied hard, worked hard, enjoyed success in business and now aspires to the office of president of the United States. Like Martin Luther King, he is a minister of the Gospel of Jesus. He is not a career politician but out of love for his country, he seeks now to lead.
If we have an honest discussion on whether the war on poverty should be fought with welfare or with economic growth in the private sector, Democrats will lose black votes.
When Mr. Cain says abortion is bad business, is hurting America and denying our youngest the civil right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, that is a dangerous discussion for the Democrats and their pro-abortion platform.
When he says the abortion industry, particularly Planned Parenthood, is committing Black genocide, he is giving a national platform to an issue that the mainstream media was quick to label racist and then sweep back under the carpet.
This controversy is nothing more than a political ploy by the establishment to attempt a high-tech lynching, a brazen – if transparent – effort to eliminate this man who actually dares to present solutions for America’s problems.
Let’s Slay the Dreamer Say Cain Naysayers
Wednesday, November 9th, 2011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Eugene Vigil, 757-593-9982
Statement by Alveda king
Atlanta, GA, November 9, 2011 – Once again, the American Dream is under attack. Cain naysayers hope to ‘slay the dreamer.’ The establishment is horrified by Mr. Cain because of what he represents. Mr. Cain is the epitome of the American dream; he grew up poor, worked his way up to success through hard work using a work ethic he inherited from his father and mother. He’s a true bootstraps story.
Mr. Cain is the fulfillment of Dr. Martin Luther King’s dream. He lived the Black American experience in the South and, by the content of his character – not the color of his skin, he has studied hard, worked hard, successfully run corporations, had a successful radio show and now aspires to the office of President of the United States. Like Martin Luther King, Mr. Cain graduated from Morehouse College, is a minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and is not a politician. Mr. Cain has done all this because he loves this country and not out of some sense of self-importance.
If the general presidential election features two black men of opposing political views and Black America has an honest political debate, the Democrats would lose a portion of their 90% stranglehold on the Black vote.
If we have an honest discussion on whether the war on poverty should be fought with welfare or with economic growth in the private sector, Democrats will lose Black votes. When Mr. Cain says that our welfare system has held blacks back, and that it promotes single parent households, that it kills incentive and breeds a culture of, helplessness; he is correct. As this truth resonates, the establishment knows that we will see more blacks becoming economic conservatives. So their answer? Slay the dreamer.
When Mr. Cain says that abortion is bad business, and is hurting America and denying our youngest the civil right to, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, that is a dangerous discussion.
This is all a dangerous discussion for President Obama and the establishment to have. A strong, charismatic Black conservative like Mr. Cain on such a large platform is dangerous; he threatens their voting bloc. Not only does the Cain policy threaten them, but also the fact that his life story personifies his policy rocks the establishment. What are their options? Mr. Cain’s opponents will use the media in their attempts to assassinate Mr. Cain’s character.
Sounds like history in action here; Joseph was accused of sexual harassment by Potiphar’s wife. Sampson was targeted by Delilah. Am I suggesting that sexual harassment doesn’t exist? Of course not: I was a victim of what some consider to be sexual harassment as a young woman.
When I went for a job interview, the male interviewer commented that I had pretty legs, and he looked at my legs. I responded in this manner: Sir, I am someone’s wife, mother and daughter. Would you like the women you care about to have an experience like this? His eyes immediately turned to my job application and he asked: “when can you report for your competence exam?” I was offered that job. No court, no attempt to destroy his character, just a correction which was received.
These baseless allegations about Mr. Cain remind us of the story of The Crucible, where many people lied and said they “saw Goody dance with the devil”, when in fact they were trying to cover up acts which they themselves were involved in, with the hopes that the strength of numbers of the accusers would lead to hysteria and make their allegations more believable. The Crucible teaches us that we must not be swayed by the number of the accusers but the validity of the accusations. These are political ploys by the establishment to attempt a high tech lynching akin to racial profiling in a vicious attempt to eliminate this man who has the courage to present life affirming solutions for America’s problems.
Someone please call 9-9-9.
