The Martin Luther King celebration includes two days of activities, beginning with the annual Interfaith March for Peace today at 1 p.m.
The Wheeling Area Martin Luther King Celebration committee has two days of events planned for the observance of Martin Luther King Day. Events will be held today and tomorrow.
Events kick off at 1 p.m. today with the Interfaith March for Peace along National Road along Bethany Pike, ending at the Wheeling Jesuit Chapel.
This year, the march begins at the Temple Shalom on Bethany Pike. Escorting the marchers will be the Laughlin Chapel Young Lion Group. These young men will be wearing memorial sweatshirts honoring Bishop Donald Pitts, a longtime supporter of Martin Luther King Day activities and former member of the committee who passed away last spring.
An interfaith prayer service in the Wheeling Jesuit Chapel of Mary and Joseph concludes the March. All guests are invited to enjoy a lunch of soul food in Wheeling Jesuit's Benedum Room following the prayer service.
The cost of the meal is $3.
At 4 p.m., a service organized by the Black Clergy Alliance will be held.
This service will feature Reverend Albert Anderson of Macedonia Baptist Church. The service is taking place at the Bethlehem Apostolic Temple, located at 330 Main Street in North Wheeling.
Other events will be held tomorrow beginning at 9 a.m. starting with a children's breakfast held at West Virginia Northern Community College's Education Center.
Ex President Bill Clionton , George Bush , and President USA Obama with Secretary of State attending the funeral.
A motorcade bringing the body of US Senator Edward Kennedy has arrived at a basilica in Boston, where his funeral Mass is to be celebrated.
President Barack Obama is to deliver a eulogy in the Our Lady of Perpetual Help Basilica.
Mr Kennedy, who died of brain cancer on Tuesday, will later be buried in Washington near his assassinated brothers, ex-President John and Robert.
An Irish wake-style memorial was held on Friday for Mr Kennedy, who was 77.
Earlier, some 50,000 people paid their respects before the Massachusetts senator's flag-draped coffin during a two-day public viewing at the John F Kennedy Presidential Library.
In keeping with the Kennedy family's Irish heritage, the service featured laughter and music, as well as tributes to the senator, who had long been the leader of one of America's great political dynasties.
"Now Teddy has become a part of history, and we are the ones who will have to do all the things he would have done, for us, for each other and for our country," said his niece Caroline Kennedy, daughter of John.
In the US, Mr Kennedy's death has been seen as the end of an era, following the assassinations of his brothers in 1963 and 1968.
Many of Kennedy's fellow senators, and former presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, are attending. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton attended with her husband.
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican who is married to Kennedy's niece Maria Shriver, entered the church shortly before the funeral was scheduled to begin.
The actor Jack Nicholson was also present, as was civil rights leader Jesse Jackson.
Other mourners included Vice President Joe Biden and former Vice Presidents Al Gore and Dan Quayle, all veterans of the Senate, where Kennedy served for 47 years.
Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen was due to attend, while British Prime Minister Gordon Brown sent regrets.
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, CIA chief Leon Panetta, and several Cabinet members also turned out to pay their respects.
Sen. John McCain, the 2008 Republican presidential candidate, chatted with Sen. Chris Dodd, a Connecticut Democrat, in the pews before the ceremony began.
Honorary pallbearers at the service include Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, Democratic Sens. Dodd and John Kerry, of Massachusetts, and long-time Massachusetts congressman Ed Markey, also a Democrat.
Actual pallbearers will include Kennedy children, nieces and nephews, while Kennedy's son Ted and nephew Patrick are scheduled to deliver remembrances.
In a televised tribute on Wednesday, Mr Obama said Mr Kennedy had achieved "extraordinary good" and was "one of the most accomplished Americans ever to serve our democracy".
But others have noted that his legacy of public service was counter-balanced by heavy drinking in his early years - and the death of a female companion, Mary Jo Kopechne, in 1969 when he drove off a bridge at Chappaquiddick in Massachusetts and fled the scene.
Kennedy will be buried Saturday evening at Arlington National Cemetery, outside Washington -- 95 feet south of the grave of his brother Sen. Robert Kennedy, which is in turn just steps away from brother John Kennedy's burial site. ---------
Staples Memorial and tribute to MJ , saw many of his friends singing and giving eulogy abt MJ. List of song include :-
# Andrae Crouch Choir, "Soon and Very Soon" # Mariah Carey and Trey Lorenz, "I'll Be There" # Lionel Richie, "Jesus Is Love" # Stevie Wonder, "Never Dreamed You'd Leave in Summer" # Jennifer Hudson, "Will You Be There" # John Mayer, "Human Nature" # Jermaine Jackson, "Smile" # Usher, "Gone Too Soon" # Shaheen Jafargholi, "Who's Loving You" # Group, "We Are the World" + "Heal the World"
Sample of songs :-
Jennifer Hudson 4 Michael Jackson @ Staples Centre
Usher - Gone Too Soon - Tribute To Michael Jackson
Shaheen Jafargholi (HD) Michael Jackson Tribute 12-year-old Shaheen Jafargholi singing "Who's Loving You" at the Michael Jackson Memorial in the Staples Center, Los Angeles, Tuesday 7th July 2009, in front of an estimated global TV audience of one billion people.
Mariah Carey - I'll Be There - Michael Jackson Memorial
Stevie Wonder - Michael Jackson Memorial
Jermaine Jackson singing at "Michael Jackson memorial" Michael Jackson brother, Jermaine Jackson singing at STAPLES CENTER - Jackson memorial. The song is called "Smile" (by Charlie Chaplin) and is believed to be Michael Jackson's favorite song.
We Are The World - Michael Jackson Memorial
Lionel Ritchie singing at "Michael Jackson memorial Lionel Ritchie singing for Michael Jackson - Jesus is Love
Michael Jackson Memorial Service Queen Latifah Reads Maya Angelou
Michael Jackson Memorial Service @ Staples Center Brooke Shields Give a rare view of Michael Jackson early years and behind the scene character.
Michael Jackson Memorial Service - Berry Gordy Eulogy Motown Records founder Berry Gordy eulogizes Michael Jackson, "who was like a son to me," he says. "We all knew we was special."
Michael Jackson's eldest child, daughter Paris, gives a tearful good-bye at his memorial service.
Michael Jackson Memorial Service - Smokey Robinson
Reverend Al Sharpton eulogizes Michael Jackson. At one point, he tells his family, "There was nothing strange about your daddy. It was strange what your daddy had to deal with, but he dealt with it."
Michael Jackson Memorial Service - Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee Congresswoman Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX) eulogizes Michael Jackson and says that he is "innocent until proven otherwise". She also introduced Resolution 600, dedicated to the King of Pop.
Shaheen Jafargholi Performance in Michael Jackson memorial.Britain’s Got Talent Season 3 sensation Shaheen Jafargholi — just 12 years old — commanded his audience with a solid performance of The Jackson 5’s “Who’s Lovin’ You” , public memorial honoring the life and work of Michael Jackson.Choreographer Kenny Ortega insisted that young Shaheen perform at the afternoon tribute after MJ himself selected
BErry Gordy the motown founder talking about Michael Jackson.
Fans pay tribute by a memorial for deceased pop star Michael Jackson outside the Jackson family home in Encino, California July 3, 2009.
Fans stand near a memorial for deceased pop star Michael Jackson outside the Jackson family home in Encino, California July 3, 2009. Jackson, the child star turned King of Pop who set the world dancing but whose musical genius was overshadowed by a bizarre lifestyle and sex scandals. Jackson was 50.
Jackson family spokesperson Ken Sunshine speaks at a news conference announcing details of the Michael Jackson public memorial service in Los Angeles July 3, 2009.
A general view of the back of the main house inside Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch in Los Olivos, California July 3, 2009.
A general view of the main living room inside Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch in Los Olivos, California July 3, 2009.
AEG President and Chief Executive Timothy J. Leiweke (R) speaks as Jackson family spokesperson Ken Sunshine looks on during a news conference announcing details of the Michael Jackson public memorial service in Los Angeles July 3, 2009.
People stroll outside the Staples Center in Los Angeles in a file photo.
Cecilia Riveros, 42, from Santiago, Chile, leaves a note by a memorial for deceased pop star Michael Jackson outside the Jackson family home in Encino, California July 2, 2009
A man looks at a statue of Michael Jackson in Regensdorf near Zurich, July 2, 2009. The statue will be displayed in Regensdorf from July 3 to July 5.
Mexican fans of the late pop star Michael Jackson gather at the Angel of Independence Monument in Mexico City, July 4, 2009. Jackson, the child star turned King of Pop who set the world dancing but whose musical genius was overshadowed by a bizarre lifestyle and sex scandals, died on June 25. He was 50.
