LUPINACCI, HUNTINGTON NAACP CELEBRATE DR. KING'S LEGACY

Assemblyman Chad A. Lupinacci (R,C,I-South Huntington) joined leaders of the Huntington NAACP Monday night in a remembrance of civil rights pioneer Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Speaking at Bethel AME Church during the branch’s annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Jubilee Program, Lupinacci celebrated King’s tireless advocacy for fairness and equality, which, framed in faith, optimism and nonviolence, touched on all aspects of American life and shaped them for the better.

“Very simply, his efforts helped to make these United States a more perfect union, and left a blueprint by which all of us can make the world we live in a better place – as well as a mandate that we must do it,” Lupinacci said, echoing King’s message that “the time is always right to do what is right.”

The evening was filled with songs, prayer, a reading of President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation and a keynote address by Rev. Keith Hayward of Bethel AME Church in Copiague.

Photo by Jano Tantongco/Long Islander News 

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