Long Beach Peace Week

Councilman Dee Andrews Announces the Recipients of the 5th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Peace Maker Award

The Sixth District Councilman Dee Andrews and the Peace Week Committee are pleased to announce the Long Beach 2012 Martin Luther King, Jr. Peace Maker Awardees. Five award recipients will be honored at 5:00 pm, on January 10th, at the Long Beach City Council meeting, 333 West Ocean Blvd, as part of Peace Week —a [...]

Peace Week 2011 Starts in the Garden and Ends in MLK Park

Peace Week begins in Long Beach this week, uniting the community with the teachings of nonviolence and equality while celebrating the revolutionary spirit of one of America’s most prominent advocates for racial justice and equality, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The week, which begins with an anniversary celebration in the Peace Garden will also include [...]

MLK Peace & Unity Celebration: Calloway brothers take the main stage

The Long Beach 22nd Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Peace & Unity Celebration this weekend will feature musical guests “The Calloway Brothers, formerly known as Midnight Star”, performing live on Saturday, January 16, at Martin Luther King, Jr. Park, 1550 Lemon Avenue. Brothers Reginald and Vincent Calloway were born in the 1950s in Cincinnati, [...]

Peace Week event brings teens, police together for dialogue

A series of Police and Youth Dialogues are scheduled this week to coincide with the Martin Luther King Jr. Peace Week Celebrations. The first event takes place tonight January 13. With the two additional dialogues following on January 14, and 20. All events are from 4:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. at Martin Luther King Jr. [...]

Councilman Dee Andrews Kicks-Off to Peace Week By Breaking Ground on Community Peace Garden

As a kick-off to the City of Long Beach Peace Week activities, Councilman Dee Andrews will be breaking ground on the Community Peace Garden.  The event will take place on Saturday, January 9th at 4:30 PM on the east side of the Central Facilities Building at Martin Luther King Jr. Park, 1950 Lemon Avenue. The [...]

Long Beach will honor three with MLK Peace Maker Awards during Peace Week

Three award recipients will receive the Long Beach Martin Luther King, Jr. Peace Maker Award at next week’s council meeting on January 12. The awards coincide with Peace Week —a week-long celebration leading up to the 22nd Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Peace & Unity Parade Celebration on January 16. The candidates have been selected [...]

Peace Week honors Dr. King with events focused on unity, community

The City of Long Beach is celebrating Peace Week. Created by Councilman Dee Andrews, Peace Week activities are produced to instill a peaceful environment utilizing the teachings of Dr. King and to raise the consciousness of the community. This week-long celebration is being held in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King’s nonviolent movement and kicks-off [...]

Parade and festival honor legacy of Dr Martin Luther King, Jr

The 22nd Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Peace & Unity Parade Celebration will take place on Saturday, January 16, 2010 from 10:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., in Long Beach. This year, the parade’s theme is “Strength To Love”  — taken for Dr. King’s (1963) book published under the same name. “I chose this theme [...]