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50 years after the death of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, and in the era of campaigns such as Black Lives Matter, Heart and Soul Gathering discusses the role of African-American churches in the fight against social and racial injustice.

Birmingham, AL, was a centre of the civil rights movement in the 1960s, but what place does Christian non-violence have today? And how can churches be relevant to younger generations?

Heart and Soul Gathering will invite the community to discuss the topic at the 16th Street Baptist Church, an iconic city location, which survived a 1963 bombing and murder of four young girls, an event seen as pivotal to the original civil rights movement. Two-time Emmy Award-winning presenter Sherri Jackson, will ask a local audience and a panel of speakers about the role of Christianity in America鈥檚 new civil rights movements? Sherri is joined by the next generation of activists and by those who were part of the original civil rights movement. We鈥檒l be asking who is taking forward the Cause, and the Christianity of Dr King?

Speakers include Rev. Dr. Bernard Lafayette, civil rights activist and authority on non-violent social change, Tef Poe, musician and activist, Rev. Eva Melton, activist, minister, and community organizer; Rev. Arthur Price of 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham and student Justin Smith.