WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and his family celebrated Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth anniversary at a morning worship service Sunady.
Obama, his wife, Michelle, and daughters Sasha and Malia sat in the second row of Washington's historic Zion Baptist Church, as bright sunlight streamed through stained-glass windows.
The church commemorated the slain civil rights leader's 83rd birth anniversary with a photo of King on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and the words “I Have a Dream” on the program cover.
A deacon welcomed the first family and read a passage from King's Letter from a Birmingham Jail.
The sermon by the Rev. Keith Byrd came from Matthew 5 which describes the salt of the earth. Byrd urged the congregation to “preserve our morals, preserve our values,” like salt amid political, social and economic turmoil.
Photo: Rev. Keith Byrd
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