Preaching as a Prisoner on the Dream of Dr. King

While still serving a decades-long prison sentence, the Rev. Dr. Benjamin Chavis received permission to deliver a sermon at Duke Chapel for a 1979 service memorializing the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. An assistant of Dr. King’s in the Civil Rights Movement, Dr. Chavis would eventually be pardoned for his alleged crimes and go on to serve as the executive director of the NAACP, among many other leadership positions. Named last year as the inaugural Environmental Justice and Racial Equity Fellow at Duke University, Dr. Chavis reflects on his historic sermon at Duke Chapel and the ongoing struggle to realize the dream of Dr. King in the latest episode of the Chapel's Sounds of Faith podcast.

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• Listen to a recording of the 1979 Duke Chapel service in which Dr. Chavis preached
• Read a (Duke) Chronicle article about the service

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