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\n\tA detail of the 20-foot-high bronze sculpture “The Embrace,” shows a hand with a bracelet, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023, in the Boston Common, in Boston. The sculpture, a memorial to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, consisting of four intertwined arms, was inspired by a photo of the Kings embracing when MLK learned he had won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. The statue is to be unveiled during ceremonies Friday, Jan. 13, 2023. AP Photo\/Steven Senne<\/em>\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Annual tributes and commemorations of the life and legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., which begin nationwide on Friday, typically include a mix of politics, faith and community service.<\/p>\n

For this year\u2019s celebration, the 37th since its federal recognition in 1986, a descendant of King hopes to spur progress by helping more Americans personalize the ongoing struggle for racial equity and harmony. Bernice King, daughter of the late civil rights icon, said people must move beyond platitudes and deepen their own commitments to the needed progress.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to change our thinking,\u201d said King, who is CEO of The King Center in Atlanta.<\/p>\n

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Under the theme \u201cIt Starts With Me,\u201d the center launched its slate of Martin Luther King Jr. Day events on Thursday with youth and adult summits to educate the public on ways to transform unjust systems in the U.S.<\/p>\n

The summits were streamed online and are available for replay on the center\u2019s social media accounts.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cIt seems like we\u2019re going through these cycles, because we\u2019re trying to approach everything with the same mindset that all of this (racial inequity) was created,\u201d King told The Associated Press.<\/p>\n

\u201cChange can be very small,\u201d she said, \u201cbut transformation means that now we changed the character, form, and nature of something. That\u2019s something we have not seen yet.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other King holiday weekend events include a statue unveiling in Boston<\/a>, a symposium on police brutality in Akron, Ohio, and community service projects in many U.S. cities. The holiday kicks off another year of advocacy on a racial justice agenda \u2014 from police reforms and strengthening voting rights to solutions on economic and educational disparities \u2014 that has been stymied by culture wars and partisan gridlock in Washington and nationwide.<\/p>\n

On Sunday morning, President Joe Biden is due to speak at a commemorative service at Ebenezer Baptist Church, the historic Atlanta house of worship where King preached from 1960 until his assassination in 1968. The church is pastored by the Rev. Sen. Raphael Warnock<\/a>, who recently won election to a full term as Georgia\u2019s first Black U.S. senator.<\/p>\n

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And on Monday, the federal observance of the King holiday, commemorations continue in Atlanta, as well as in the nation\u2019s capital and beyond.<\/p>\n

The Rev. Al Sharpton, who got his start as a civil rights organizer in his teens as youth director of an anti-poverty project of King\u2019s Southern Christian Leadership Conference, will hold his annual King holiday events in Washington, D.C. and New York on Monday. Martin Luther King III, son of the civil rights icon, is expected to attend Sharpton\u2019s breakfast gala in Washington with his wife, Drum Major Institute president Arndrea Waters King, who will be honored alongside former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Monday afternoon in New York City, Sharpton, the founder and president of the National Action Network, is scheduled to convene more than 30 prominent state and local elected officials for a public policy forum at the House of Justice, his organization\u2019s headquarters in Harlem.<\/p>\n

In the decades since its establishment, the King holiday has become an opportunity for elected officials and candidates seeking office to establish their civil rights and social justice credentials. Bernice King said partisanship among politicians has been a major obstacle to legislative solutions on civil rights.<\/p>\n

Overcoming that is \u201cgoing to require elevating to a place where your loyalty is to humanity, not to party,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIf we don\u2019t find humane ways to create policies and implement practices out of those policies, we\u2019re going to continue in this vicious cycle of a downward spiral towards destruction and chaos.\u201d<\/p>\n

Outside of establishment politics, many King holiday weekend events are opportunities for Americans to give back, reflect on the civil right icon\u2019s legacy or deal locally with racial discrimination in their own communities.<\/p>\n

A massive monument to Martin Luther King Jr. is scheduled to be dedicated Friday in Boston, where the leader first met his wife, Coretta Scott King. In the early 1950s, he was a doctoral student in theology at Boston University and she was studying at the New England Conservatory of Music.<\/p>\n

The $10 million sculpture called \u201cThe Embrace\u201d consisting of four intertwined arms was inspired by a photo of the Kings embracing when King Jr. learned he had won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. It was designed by\u202fHank Willis Thomas and MASS Design Group and was selected out of 126 proposals.<\/p>\n

Imari Paris Jeffries, executive director of EmbraceBoston, the organization behind the memorial, noted the significance of the sculpture\u2019s placement at the Boston Common, America\u2019s oldest public park and a high traffic area with millions of city residents and visitors walking its paths every year.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think Boston has this reputation of being this city of heroes and abolitionists, like W.E.B. Du Bois and Frederick Douglas, simultaneously with this reputation of not being friendly and in some cases being described as racist. So there\u2019s this tension between these two images of Boston. Having the memorial there is part of our intention to transform our city\u2019s perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In Akron, Ohio, the family of Jayland Walker<\/a>, a 25-year-old Black man killed after police officers shot at him 46 times as he fled last July, will hold a symposium on public safety and mental health with local civil rights leaders on Saturday. Walker\u2019s case received widespread attention from activists, including from the King family.<\/p>\n

And for the seventh year, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation will mark a post-King holiday National Day of Racial Healing. On Tuesday, communities nationwide are scheduled to hold town halls to continue dialog on healing that the foundation says is needed to achieve racial equity.<\/p>\n

\u201cRegardless of who you are, there\u2019s a journey of healing that everyone must consider,\u201d said La June Montgomery Tabron, CEO of the Kellogg Foundation. \u201cWe\u2019ve all been impacted by racism.\u201d<\/p>\n

Associated Press writer Mark Pratt in Boston contributed.<\/em><\/p>\n

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