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Virtual MLK Lecture: Bishop Joey Johnson

"Health or Healthcare?"

2022-01-16 14:00:00 2022-01-16 15:00:00 America/New_York Virtual MLK Lecture: Bishop Joey Johnson Bishop Joey Johnson will echo and discuss the meaning of Dr. King's 1966 statement about health and explore what healthcare in the USA looks like today. He asks,"Health or Healthcare?" Main Library - ZOOM WEBINAR -

Sunday, January 16
2:00pm - 3:00pm

Add to Calendar 2022-01-16 14:00:00 2022-01-16 15:00:00 America/New_York Virtual MLK Lecture: Bishop Joey Johnson Bishop Joey Johnson will echo and discuss the meaning of Dr. King's 1966 statement about health and explore what healthcare in the USA looks like today. He asks,"Health or Healthcare?" Main Library - ZOOM WEBINAR -

Bishop Joey Johnson will echo and discuss the meaning of Dr. King's 1966 statement about health and explore what healthcare in the USA looks like today. He asks,"Health or Healthcare?"

This program is a Zoom webinar. Please click here at 2 pm, January 16 to join us. 

On March 25, 1966, in Chicago at a press conference before his speech at the second convention of the Medical Committee for Human Rights (MCHR), Dr. King said:

“We are concerned about the constant use of federal funds to support this most notorious expression of segregation. Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and the most inhuman because it often results in physical death.” 

On the eve of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day 2022, hear Bishop Johnson expound on this historic message from Dr. King.

Presiding Bishop of Beth-El Fellowship of Visionary Churches, he is also the organizer and Senior Pastor of The House of the Lord. Bishop Johnson chairs the City of Akron Racial Equity and Social Justice Taskforce.

The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture is sponsored by the Akron Summit County Public Library and the Eta Tau Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. The event is free.

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Main Library, located in the heart of downtown Akron, combines compelling public space with meaningful and relevant public library services for all members of our community. Since opening in 2004, the downtown library welcomes more than one million visitors each year.

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