{"id":147715,"date":"2026-03-25T05:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T05:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/147715\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T05:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T05:54:07","slug":"mlks-letter-from-birmingham-jail-a-staged-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/147715\/","title":{"rendered":"MLK\u2019s Letter from Birmingham Jail: A Staged Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stage One invites the community to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/916559570775378\/916559577442044\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">staged reading<\/a> of Martin Luther King Jr.\u2019s Letter from Birmingham Jail, the late civil rights leader\u2019s powerful defense of nonviolent resistance and call to morally resist unjust laws.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by Melik Brown (aka Metro Melik), the production brings together local actors and community leaders to give voice to King\u2019s words, which are still urgent today.<\/p>\n<p>Sycamore Creek Church has produced readings of the letter many times \u2014 with adults, with children, live, and on video. \u201cEach time, the words land fresh,\u201d organizers say. \u201cEach time, they ask something of us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This year, experience the words yourself. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stage One invites the community to a staged reading of Martin Luther King Jr.\u2019s Letter from Birmingham Jail,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-147715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}