{"id":9111,"date":"2011-08-15T15:50:10","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T19:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=9111"},"modified":"2011-08-15T15:19:01","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T19:19:01","slug":"celebrity-co-chairs-announced-for-martin-luther-king-jr-memorial-dedication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=9111","title":{"rendered":"Celebrity Co-Chairs Announced For Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Dedication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON<\/strong> \u2013 <strong>Stevie Wonder<\/strong>, <strong>Aretha Franklin<\/strong>, <strong>Berry Gordy, Jr<\/strong>., <strong>George Lucas<\/strong>, <strong>Jamie Foxx<\/strong> and <strong>Clarence Avant<\/strong> will serve as celebrity co-chairs for the Dedication of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in Washington, D. C..<\/p>\n<p>The Memorial, the first on the National Mall to honor a man of peace, hope, and color, will be dedicated on August 28 in a West Potomac Park ceremony on the 48th anniversary of the March on Washington and<strong> Dr. King\u2019s<\/strong> historic \u201c<em>I Have a Dream<\/em>\u201d speech.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the <strong>King<\/strong> Family, civil rights leaders including <strong>Congressman John Lewis<\/strong>, <strong>Ambassador Andy Young<\/strong>, <strong>Reverend Al Sharpton<\/strong>, <strong>Reverend Jesse Jackson<\/strong>, and <strong>Reverend Joseph Lowery<\/strong>, and Secretary of the Interior <strong>Ken Salazar<\/strong> will play a role in several events in the nation\u2019s capital to celebrate the Memorial\u2019s dedication August 24 through 28.<\/p>\n<p>Former Secretary of Labor <strong>Alexis Herman<\/strong>, <strong>General Colin Powell,<\/strong> <strong>Tom Brokaw<\/strong>, <strong>Maya Angelou<\/strong>, Alpha Phi Alpha General President <strong>Herman \u201cSkip\u201d Mason, Jr.<\/strong>, <strong>Tommy Hilfiger<\/strong>,General Motors Chairman and CEO <strong>Dan Akerson<\/strong>, leaders of the faith-based community and more will participate in Dedication Week events.<strong> President Barack Obama<\/strong> will deliver remarks during the August 28 Dedication Ceremony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2013 Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Berry Gordy, Jr., George Lucas, Jamie Foxx and Clarence Avant will serve as celebrity co-chairs for the Dedication of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in Washington, D. C.. The Memorial, the first on the National Mall to honor a man of peace, hope, and color, will be dedicated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}