Building a Bigger Table: Keeping the Dream alive

On Saturday, November 9th, Let Freedom Ring Foundation held its 2024 Annual Fall Gala at the Virginia Ballroom of Williamsburg Lodge. The event celebrated descendants of Historic First Baptist Church, one of the oldest Black congregations in the nation dating back to 1776. It was fitting that a famous descendant, Martin Luther King III, son of civil rights icon Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., addressed the roughly 700 attendees. King, a global human rights leader and author, spoke of the honor of ringing the historic Freedom Bell and seeing photographs of his
father when he preached at First Baptist Church on June 26, 1962.

The next day more than 70 people gathered at Legacy Hall in James City County for the fifth annual Heal Greater Williamsburg/Heal the Nation Community Day organized by the Virginia Racial Healing Institute.

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