Veteran Next Generation Civil Rights Activist Mark Allen Analysis of Current Tributes to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr as it relates to how the King Agenda is or is not working is todays urban communities
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SUNDAY JANUARY 15th, 2017
CT Vivian, Civil Rights Icon and Former Key Aide To Dr. King Featured at St Sabina Service at 11:00 AM at St. Sabina

REMINDER - Today is Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr actual birthday and those who can should attend the 11:00 AM public service today at St Sabina where Father Michael Pfleger will host as featured speaker., Elder Civil Rights Movement Icon, Rev Dr CT Vivian a former chief aide to Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr who God spared as he put his life on the line so many times in the streets as a chief lieutenant of Rev Dr King. A once in a lifetime moment and experience to celebrate the life and legacy of Rev Dr King today. I am forever humbled to be a part of that next generation legacy having been trained like others in our youth and worked with and under so many of Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr's family members and key staff like CT Vivian. Happy Birthday Rev Dr King! God bless

Rev/Dr. King's Economic Agenda Should Be Focus Of

King Birthday Commemorations

King's POOR PEOPLE'S CAMPAIGN principles if practiced today could help successfully address many of the issues of Unemployment, small business development, corporate responsibility, public policy and other issues in majority Black and poor communities

(Mark S. Allen, Veteran Civil Rights Activist, Chairman of National Black Wall Street Chicago, and Chief of Staff to National President of Black Wall Street USA)

HEAR MY VOICE !! CALL TO ACTION on the upcoming national holiday honoring the birthday and legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr and I am humbled to have been able to have been trained in my youth to adult with so many of Dr. King's family, and so many of his former national staff and allies. This is for all of us who say that "WE ARE THE LEADERS WE HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR." So we need not have a "paralysis of analysis," but just a public acceptance for this assignment and call to ACTION!! I am making this public appeal that we all use the upcoming birthday of Dr. King to announce that we are all using this time to publicly give re-birth to Dr. King's last ECONOMIC agenda he called his POOR PEOPLES CAMPAIGN, his last campaign on earth.

We do not need anyones permission to announce that we are going to accept and WORK on Dr. King's last SPECIFIC AGENDA where he specifically directed Black and Poor People to re-direct more the dollars the spend everyday with our own community financial institutions to then have the community capital to help create, sustain and increase our community businesses, jobs and institutions in our OWN majority Black and poor communities - then Dr. King said that Black and poor people should not financially support major corporations in our communities that did not have Black products on their shelves and community benefit agreements to engage Black professional services. He went on to say that Black businesses would then have more of our own financial capacity to control our politics.

So this CALL TO ACTION can support Dr. Kings ECONOMIC AGENDA that NO ONE can stop us from just DOING under our own leadership. WE can help change the local and national narrative in that WHY shouldnt all the Black grassroots leadership CHANGE the narrative in convincing even more that the best way to celebrate Dr. King is to give re-birth to his ECONOMIC agenda in our majority Black and poor communities. As Chairman of National Black Wall Street Chicago, I am looking forward to returning to our organization with the help of COUNTRY FINANCIAL on Thursday January 19th King Legacy Economic Luncheon to kick off the re-birth our our Black Wall Street agenda that indeed includes Dr. King's ECONOMIC agenda as I was taught by The Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr, Rev Willie T. Barrow and so many other of Dr. King's former national staff and allies.

Let SOME of us take the leadership in celebrating Dr. King's birthday by giving birth again to whats was Dr. King's OWN last agenda that HE was working on himself before he was assassinated! So based on the Black communities double digit Black unemployment; the need for more Black businesses and jobs etc is why National Black Wall Street is asking all the Black Wall Street chapters across the country and others to publicly proclaim that WE are taking the lead in saying that WE can use Dr. King's ECONOMIC Agenda to help address these economic issues facing the Black community!!!

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Chairman & COO National Black Wall Street Chicago

(Consumer Education and Consumer Action Project)

Founder/Lead Organizer, Illinois Voter Restoration Civic Education Project

Chief of Staff to National Chairman, National Black Wall Street USA

"And The Ordinary People Said" News Blog, www.chicagonow.com

Chairman, Community Reinvestment Organizing Project

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The Rev. Al Sharpton calls Mark Allen "one of Chicago's legendary political activists and one of the best organizers of his generation"

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