The Ebenezer Baptist Church was a home base to Martin Luther King Jr., and has since hosted several important events in the movement for racial justice.
Rayshard Brooks' coffin is carried out of Ebenezer Baptist Church following his funeral in Atlanta on June 23.Ebenezer’s senior pastor, the Rev. Raphael G. Warnock, delivered the eulogy for Brooks — calling him “the latest high-profile casualty in the struggle for justice” — and will do so for Lewis on Thursday.
During Brooks’ eulogy, Warnock spoke about Ebenezer’s work to end the mass incarceration of Black Americans and recalled an annual summit the church participates in to help attendees expunge records from felony and misdemeanor arrests that did not result in a conviction. Warnock has been outspoken about voter suppression and an advocate for reauthorizing the Voting Rights Act, and said he sees his political run as a part of his “spiritual stewardship.”Ebenezer Baptist Church was founded in 1886 by a former enslave, the Rev. John A. Parker, with 13 members on Airline Street. King’s maternal grandfather, the Rev.
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