On an usually cold morning in Atlanta on Monday, thousands escaped the freezing temperatures and entered Ebenezer Baptist Church.
It’s the place where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was once a pastor.
More than 50 years after his death, the pews were packed inside Dr. King’s church. The high ceilings filled with the sound of children reciting his letter from the Birmingham jail. A young boy sang “A Change Is Gonna Come.”
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