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NYC politicians, protesters to be out in force on MLK Day

By
Leonard Greene
Published Jan. 19, 2015, 9:26 a.m. ET
Bill de Blasio will join Al Sharpton to mark the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday.
Bill de Blasio will join Al Sharpton to mark the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday. AP

Politicians and protesters will be out in force in New York on Monday to mark the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday.

Mayor de Blasio will join the Rev. Al Sharpton for the minister’s annual King tribute at Sharpton’s National Action Network headquarters in Harlem before heading to Brooklyn for a King ceremony at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

US Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand will also speak at the 1 p.m. BAM event, which is hosted by Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams and Medgar Evers College.

Sharpton’s schedule includes a trip to Brooklyn for a wreath-laying ceremony at the Bedford-Stuyvesant corner where cops Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu were murdered last month during the height of police-brutality protests. He also will attend a candlelight vigil in Staten Island for Eric Garner, a black man who died after a white officer put him in an apparent chokehold.

The civil-rights movie “Selma,” which was iced out of most major Oscar categories except Best Picture, will be the main topic of an event in Harlem.

The son of the Rev. Ralph David Abernathy, King’s right-hand man in Selma, will discuss historical inaccuracies in the new film and how his father’s role has been whitewashed beyond recognition. The event is being held at the Convent Avenue Baptist Church.

The film has come under fire for suggesting that President Lyndon Johnson was a reluctant player in the historic battle for voting rights. The Rev. Ralph David Abernathy III said his father also was more than a minor participant.

“My father was there,” said Abernathy III. “Martin Luther King never went to the White House by himself. He went with Ralph Abernathy. They went together, as a team.”

MTV is taking a unique approach to the holiday, airing its programming in black and white Monday.

“The device of turning us black and white is going to be really — visually — a jolt to say, you know what, there are differences and if we are going to ever get to a freer, more equal society the best thing we can begin to do is talk about them,” MTV President Stephen Friedman said.