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Hear Day Gardner and Alveda King on Alveda’s new radio show “Changing Your Community”

Friday, November 4th, 2011







Changing Your Community with hosts Emmanuel Boose and Alveda King will be on this Sunday at

http://cycbroadcast.com/about-us/

They will be discussing Day’s recent press release, which can be found at http://christiannewswire.com/news/7655418186.html

Day Gardner of National Black Pro-Life Union Agrees with Herman Cain, Planned Parenthood is ‘Planned Genocide’
Contact: Maggie, 410-760-3326, maggie@nplr.net

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4, 2011 /Christian Newswire/ — The following is submitted by Day Gardner of the National Black Pro-Life Union:
The ’60s were an incredible time for black people. We were truly united in breaking down color barriers and the walls of inequality. We demanded our right to life and liberty and we pursued happiness. America opened her doors. While some of those doors flung open with ease — most had to be pried open with a crowbar or destroyed by a battering ram.

In pursuit of the American Dream we didn’t even notice the black hole of abortion swallowing us up — butchering black babies by the millions. Even our clergy and community leaders became blinded by the money, greed and political power that dangled in front of them. Black doctors, lawyers, educators, movie stars and business owners — looked to own the “Huxtable” life style of bigger houses, powerful titles, and flashier cars.

Hallelujah! We weren’t slaves anymore, we weren’t second class citizens anymore, but we weren’t “average” Americans either — instead we became a sought after voting block. We were so blinded by the bling of our own selfishness that we never even noticed that not everybody boarded the freedom train.

Our so-called black leaders even side-stepped Martin Luther King’s “Dream” for America — they focused on becoming self important demi-gods and didn’t care who they had to step on or how many little bodies had to be crushed to get there. Even members of the clergy turned their backs on the truth of God to satisfy their own appetite for massive churches preaching hollow God-less messages of live for today, garner wealth today — kill your child today — if he’s in your way, it’s okay!

According to the Bible children are “wealth.” According to God’s word children are a “heritage” and a “reward” and a “gift!”

The truth is Planned Parenthood’s founder, Margaret Sanger initiated the Negro Project in 1939. She hired black ministers and community leaders to sell abortion and sterilization to black congregations and neighborhoods in order to keep in her words, “human weeds” from growing — to eliminate us as a people. Black ministers back then bought in to her idea hook, line and sinker — and indeed, we have sunk — to the very depths of hell.

Today Planned Parenthood’s business model is still the same. Planned Parenthood still hires blacks to be the “delivery boy” with the message that if you are pregnant and young, single or poor the only answer is to kill your child. They say to hell with what God wants for you and His precious “gift” — kill that baby!

The Alan Gutmacher Institute which is the research arm of Planned Parenthood admits that more than 75% of all abortion clinics are purposefully placed in black/minority neighborhoods. Planned Parenthood workers have been caught on tape salivating … ready to receive money donated to specifically kill black babies.

Former black leader and Presidential hopeful Rev. Jesse Jackson once spoke adamantly and passionately about the un-Godly act of abortion. He stated: “Life is the highest human good not on its own naturalistic merits, but because life is supernatural, a gift from God.” He went on to say, “It takes three to make a baby: a man, a woman and the Holy Spirit.” He was a powerhouse — until he ran for President in 1984 — deciding that his political aspirations were much more important than the lives of babies and even more important than his relationship with the God he once served. Like Judas, he betrayed the innocent for 30 pieces of silver.

Enter Herman Cain. For the first time in a very long time we are seeing a different kind of candidate. He is fearless in that he is not shying away from difficult questions or issues. Planned Parenthood is a billion dollar abortion chain that has had a genocidal impact on the black community and Cain is not afraid to say so. Children are denied their most basic human right — which is the right to life; a right which our ancestors so proudly worked for, marched for and many of them died for.

Herman Cain realizes every American is an important and a vital piece of the fabric that makes this country great. Herman Cain is on the freedom train. He is a courageous business man — with a plan for all of America and I want that in a president.

All aboard!






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Redeem the Dream: The State of the Quality of Life in the 21st Century

Wednesday, September 14th, 2011





The Dedication of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial has been rescheduled for Sunday, October 16, 2011. We, too, have rescheduled our Redeem the Dreem event for Saturday, October 15, 2011. Please make plans to join us.






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“Redeem the Dream” Conference Postponed

Friday, August 26th, 2011





FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Date: August 25, 2011

Contact: Leslie Palma
347-286-7277

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Dr. Alveda King, director of African-American Outreach for Priests for Life, has announced that the conference “Redeem the Dream: The State of the Quality of Life in the 21st Century,” set for Saturday, Aug. 27 at the Family Research Council has been postponed.

The Aug. 28 dedication of the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial on the National Mall has been postponed due to the anticipated arrival of Hurricane Irene. No new date has been announced. “Redeem the Dream” will be rescheduled to coincide with the new dedication date.

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.






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Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Celebration: “Now is the time” to Redeem the Dream

Thursday, August 25th, 2011





For additional comments from:
President Peggy Hartshorn, Ph.D.
CONTACT: Virginia Cline
(614) 885-7577
VCline@HeartbeatInternational.org

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 25, 2011

“When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness…Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God’s children.” - Martin Luther King, Jr., “I have a Dream” speech from August 28, 1963

WASHINGTON D.C. – Heartbeat International joins Protecting Black Life, National Black Pro-Life Coalition and several other national organizations to sponsor “Redeem the Dream: The State of the Quality of Life in the 21st Century,” a candid discussion in context of the “Dream” speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

While Dr. King is remembered with the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial in Washington D.C. this week, Heartbeat International Board members Dr. Alveda King, MLK’s niece, and Pastor Derek McCoy join several other co-chairs in hosting a timely event on August 27th to discuss the injustice of abortion in the Black community.

According to Protecting Black Life website: “Since 1973 (year abortion was legalized in the U.S.) more African American babies have been killed by abortion than the total number of African American deaths from all other causes combined.”

“Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a man of peace, justice, and most of all a man of God,” said Dr. Alveda King, Director of African American Outreach for Priests for Life. “Were he alive today, he would be working to secure peace and justice for those in the womb and healing for a nation that is still pained by over 50 million missing lives.”

“Dr. King spoke at the Lincoln Memorial 48 years ago to remind America of the fierce urgency of now saying, ‘Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God’s children.’,” said Heartbeat International President Peggy Hartshorn, Ph.D. “As the nation celebrates Dr. King’s legacy, we want to remind America that Heartbeat’s pregnancy help centers, maternity homes, and adoption agencies participate in Dr. King’s mission by providing one-on-one support so no woman ever feels so alone, coerced or hopeless that she ends the life of one of God’s children through abortion.”

Alveda reminds us that it was her Uncle Martin who said: “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

Heartbeat’s pregnancy centers serve women with unexpected pregnancies by providing the practical help and emotional support they need to welcome a new life. This includes helping them to recognize their own inherent value and the inestimable significance of the child they carry. Heartbeat International, founded in 1971, is a Christ-like association of 1,200 pregnancy help centers, maternity homes, non-profit adoption agencies, and medical clinics across the nation and in 50 other countries.






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The Beloved Community and the Unborn

Thursday, August 25th, 2011





As our nation pauses to recommit itself to fulfilling the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., we invite our fellow citizens to reflect on how that dream touches every human life. Dr. King taught that justice and equality need to be as wide-reaching as humanity itself. Nobody can be excluded from the Beloved Community. He taught that “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

In his 1967 Christmas sermon, he pointed out the foundation of this vision: “The next thing we must be concerned about if we are to have peace on earth and good will toward men is the nonviolent affirmation of the sacredness of all human life. …Man is a child of God, made in His image, and therefore must be respected as such….And when we truly believe in the sacredness of human personality, we won’t exploit people, we won’t trample over people with the iron feet of oppression, we won’t kill anybody.”

Scripture teaches, “Seek first God’s Kingdom and His righteousness and all else shall be yours as well” (Matthew 6:33). Dr. King humbled himself before God and became increasingly dependent on Him. Dr. King’s search for the “Beloved Community” was really part of his search for the Kingdom of God. Because “God is Love” (1 John 4:16), His Kingdom is founded on love (agape). That is why, in his search for the Beloved Community, Dr. King discovered God’s love.

The work of building the Beloved Community is far from finished. In each age, it calls us to fight against poverty, discrimination, and violence in every form. And as human history unfolds, the forms that discrimination and violence take will evolve and change. Yet our commitment to overcome them must not change, and we must not shrink from the work of justice, no matter how unpopular it may become.

In our day, therefore, we cannot ignore the discrimination, injustice, and violence that are being inflicted on the youngest and smallest members of the human family, the children in the womb. Thousands of these children are killed every day in America by abortion, throughout all nine months of pregnancy.

We declare today that these children too are members of the Beloved Community, that our destiny is linked with theirs, and that therefore they deserve justice, equality, and protection.

And we can pursue that goal, no matter what ethnic, religious, or political affiliation we have. None of that has to change in order for us to embrace Dr. King’s affirmation of the sacredness of all human life. It simply means that in our efforts to set free the oppressed, we include the children in the womb.

We invite all people of good will to join us in the affirmation that children in the womb have equal rights and human dignity.

Dr. Alveda King
Director, African-American Outreach, Priests for Life
Niece of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Fr. Frank Pavone
National Director, Priests for Life

Mrs. Naomi Barber King
Wife of the late Rev. A.D. King (brother of Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Rev. Derek King
Pastor
Indianapolis, Indiana
Nephew of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Gloria Y. Jackson, Esq.
Great-granddaughter of Dr. Booker T. Washington
President of the Booker T. Washington Inspirational Network

Lynne M. Jackson
Great-great-granddaughter of Dred Scott






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Naomi King to be honored at Women’s Equality Day

Thursday, August 25th, 2011





FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Date: August 24, 2011

Contact: Leslie Palma
347-286-7277

Naomi Barber King, mother of Priests for Life’s Dr. Alveda King, will be among the honorees Friday at the fourth annual Women’s Equality Day Celebration. The organization Women Flying High will present the awards during a National Women’s Leadership Roundtable Conversation from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. at the Capital Hilton in Washington, D.C.

Mrs. King is the widow of the Rev. A.D. King, a civil rights leader and the brother of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. She is a crusader in the battle to save African-American babies from abortion.

Mrs. King’s commitment to life began when she changed her mind about aborting her daughter, Dr. Alveda King, who is now the full-time director of African-American Outreach for Priests for Life.

“My father-in-law, Martin Luther King Sr., told me he had a vision of my child and he wanted to meet the baby girl in his vision,” Mrs. King said.

At the age of 37, Mrs. King was left a widow with five children following the untimely death of her husband, who was a prominent civil rights leader in his own right.

“God gave me the strength to do all I had to after that,” said the soft-spoken Atlanta resident.

Former Atlanta Mayor Shirley Clark Franklin, the first female mayor of a major southern city, will lead the conversation, whose topics will include female power in the voting booth.

In recognition of the historic unveiling of the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial on Sunday, Women Flying High chose to honor women who, like Mrs. King, have served on the board and staff of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, where Dr. King served as president. Posthumous honorees include: Ella Baker, Coretta Scott King, Dr. Dorothy Irene Height, Rosa Parks, Ella Mae Brayboy, Dora McDonald and Claudette Matthews.

Other honorees include Dr. Evelyn G. Lowery, Juanita Abernathy, Annette Steele, Yolanda Grier Creecy, Dr. Christine King Farris, Rev. Bernice King, Dr. Sylvia Tucker, Carolyn Young, Dorothy Cotton, Xernona Clayton, Rita Samuels, Lula Williams, Cleo Orange, Kaye Jackson, Diane Nash, Doris Crenshaw, Brenda Davenport, Felicia Davis, Roberta Abdul-Salam and Melanie Campbell.

Women’s Equality Day also will recognize outstanding women’s organizations and programs benefitting women including: the National Council of Negro Women, the Congressional Women’s Caucus, the National Women’s Chamber of Commerce, National Political Black Women’s Congress, SCLC W.O.M.E.N, The White House Council on Women & Girls, First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move Initiative, the Black Women’s Roundtable, and Women Flying High partner organization The Georgia Coalition of Black Women, for work on behalf of women’s advancement.

Dr. Alveda King said her mother is well-deserving of the honor.

“My mother is a woman of courage, commitment, compassion and indomitable strength,” she said. “I am so proud to be her daughter.”

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.






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“Redeem the Dream” conference Saturday in D.C.

Wednesday, August 24th, 2011





FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Date: August 24, 2011

Contact: Leslie Palma
347-286-7277

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In conjunction with Sunday’s dedication of the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial, Dr. Alveda King, full-time director of African-American Outreach for Priests for Life, will host a panel discussion and video presentation Saturday, Aug. 27, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Family Research Council, 801 G Street.

“Redeem the Dream: The State of the Quality of Life in the 21st Century,” will present a frank assessment of how far African-Americans have come since Martin Luther King gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech on Aug. 28, 1963, and how the dream has been imperiled by the abortion industry.

“The murder of millions of African-American babies by abortion was not something my Uncle Martin envisioned or would ever have supported,” said Dr. King. “He was unequivocally pro-life, and it would break his heart to know that so many African-American leaders endorse freedom of choice over the right to life.”

Co-hosting “Redeem the Dream” will be King for America, Priests for Life, Care-Net, Heartbeat INTL, Center for Urban Renewal and Education, Network of Politically Active Christians, Congress on Racial Equality, Students for Life, National Black Pro-Life Union and Protecting Black Life.

Reservations are not required for the event. To arrange an interview with Dr. King, please call Leslie Palma at 347-286-7277.

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
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Redeem the Dream: The State of the Quality of Life in the 21st Century

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011










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Dr. Alveda King Available for Interviews on Dedication of Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial

Monday, August 22nd, 2011





FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Date: August 22, 2011

Contact: Andre Kim
347-286-7277

STATEN ISLAND, NY – Dr. Alveda King, director of African-American Outreach for Priests for Life, founder of King for America and the niece of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., will be doing interviews this week regarding the dedication of the long-overdue memorial for her uncle in Washington, D.C.

“As people gather in the nation’s capital to remember and celebrate the life of my Uncle Martin, it is an opportune moment to declare that were he here today, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would be standing with those working to stop the violence of abortion against children in the womb and restore them to equal protection under the law,” Dr. King said.

The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial will be dedicated at 11 a.m. Aug. 28 on the National Mall.

In conjunction with the dedication, Dr. King, Priests for Life, and a host of other pro-life organizations will host “Redeem the Dream: The State of the Quality of Life in the 21st Century,” from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Aug. 27 at the Family Research Council at 801 G Street. The event will include a panel discussion, video presentations and a call to action.

Dr. King is available for interviews Monday, Aug. 22; Thursday, Aug. 25 and Friday, Aug. 26. To arrange an interview, please call Andre Kim at 347-286-7277.

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.






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