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NJPAC ANNUAL MUSICAL TRIBUTE - A MLK CELEBRATION

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b5CeCe Winans With Anthony Brown & JJ Hairston Newark, New Jersey - New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) presents MLK Celebration. Be inspired by the life and legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at NJPAC’s annual musical tribute, an all-star gospel celebration featuring CeCe Winans, Anthony Brown & group therAPy, JJ Hairston & Youthful Praise, and a special guest speaker to be announced on Friday, January 18, 2019 8:00 PM. This year’s celebration will feature 12-time GRAMMY Award winner CeCe Winans, one of the best-selling female gospel and R&B artists of all time. Winans has been inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame and has sold in excess of 5 million albums in the U.S. alone. Her latest recording, 2017’s Let Them Fall in Love, was described by Positively Gospel as “a vibrant, soul-stirring masterpiece.” Since the release of his self-titled, 2012 debut album and its smash hit single, “Testimony,” singer, songwriter and arra...

ABC'S THE VIEW HONORED MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

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Rep. John Lewis On The View The View honors Martin Luther King Jr. with Rep. John Lewis, Common, and Charlottesville's first black female mayor. Singer-songwriter Jordin Sparks joins as guest co-host. Rep. John Lewis talks skipping Trump's inauguration, Charlottesville, experience in civil rights movement. On Charlottesville: "What happened there made me very sad — I cried. I don't wanna go back. I wanna go forward. I want to continue to be part of an effort to make America one." "We all live in the same house! The American house, the world house. And we must learn to live together as brothers and sisters, as Dr. King would put it, or we will perish as fools."  Lewis explains why he skipped inauguration: "I never felt that his election was legitimate." Lewis says he disagreed with King's daughter's comment that MLK would have met with Trump: "I knew her father very, very well. Meet...