Let Freedom Sing - Celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Let Freedom Sing - Celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Let Freedom Sing 2026: Celebrating Social Justice in Song! On Monday, Jan. 19, 2026 celebrating our 19th year of inspiring concerts! Pay what moves you!

At the historic Kelly-Strayhorn Theater, benefitting East End Community Food Bank. Each January, local choirs join forces for the Annual Choral Festival Celebrating the life and works of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. through vocal music selections and oratory. We celebrate the ideals of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with the goal of blurring the geographic, demographic, and economic lines separating urban and suburban Pittsburgh. The concerts benefits organizations such as the Food Bank of Greater Pittsburgh. Let Freedom Sing! brings together black communities and white communities, city neighborhoods and suburbs, and young and old participants and audience members in the spirit of Dr. King's vision of brotherhood. Through choral selections and oratory, the event demonstrates the importance of becoming actively involved in community affairs, working toward a common goal, and how local action can make a contribution for the common good. There is no charge for admission, however, donations accepted at the door benefit the Let Freedom Sing Concerts and the Food Bank of Greater Pittsburgh. Request details or sign up for our e-list by writing to:
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07/20/2026

A happy 104th birthday to Rachel Robinson, the founder of The Jackie Robinson Foundation in honor of her late husband.

07/16/2026

Happy Birthday to journalist, anti-lynching activist, suffragist, and one of the most fearless voices in American history, Ida B. Wells!

Born in 1862 in Holly Springs, Mississippi, Wells was born into slavery during the Civil War and was emancipated with her parents at its conclusion. She eventually found her way into journalism, writing under the name “Iola” for Memphis newspapers that earned her the nicknames “Princess of the Press” and “The Brilliant Iola.”

Her life’s work took shape in 1892, when her close friends Thomas Moss was lynched by a white businessmen who saw his grocery store as economic competition. Wells investigated, published her findings, and watched a white mob burn her newspaper office to the ground in response. She never stopped writing.

In the years that followed, she published landmark works like Southern Horrors and A Red Record, lectured across the country and overseas on the realities of lynching in America, and helped found the NAACP and National Association of Colored Women. A key figure of the women's suffrage movement, Wells participated in the 1913 Women’s Suffrage Procession, marching alongside white suffragists to integrate the demonstration.

“The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.” —Ida B. Wells

07/02/2026

Happy heavenly 118th birthday to Thurgood Marshall, the first Black Supreme Court Justice of the United States. 🙌🏾🏛️

As the ’s chief counsel from 1938 to 1961, Marshall challenged racial segregation in at least 32 cases before the Court. He won nearly all of these cases, including a historic victory in Brown v. Board of Education. His legacy earned him the nickname “Mr. Civil Rights.”

Join us in celebrating Justice Marshall’s life and legacy today. 🙏🏾

06/28/2026
06/01/2026

Tell the stories of black Americans whose tenacity and resilience enabled them to overcome adversity and make invaluable contributions to our country.

05/27/2026

Let that sink in: with Sonny Rollins’ passing today, no surviving musician remains from Art Kane’s iconic A Great Day in Harlem photograph.

A photograph that captured an era now becomes a memory of one.

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