The 54th Annual Commemorative Service is the hallmark of the King Holiday Observance. Reverend Natosha Reid Rice and Pastor Sam Collier will preside over the event. The King Center CEO, Rev. Dr. Bernice A. King, will give the Call to Commemoration. This year’s keynote speaker is Bryan Stevenson, lawyer, social justice activist, law professor at New York University School of Law, and the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI). U.S. Senator and Senior Pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church, Rev. Dr. Raphael G. Warnock, and Atlanta Mayor, The Honorable Andre Dickens, will give pastoral and city greetings, respectively. Several special guests will give tributes to Dr. King including;

• Leo Smith, CEO, Engaged Futures Group, LLC.
• Rick West, Founding Director and Director Emeritus, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution
• Renee Montgomery, Co-Owner and Vice President of the Atlanta Dream
• Pastor Dennis Rouse, Author and Founding Pastor of Victory Church
• Veronica Maldonado-Torres, President and CEO of the Georgia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.