Reverend Al Sharpton will be holding a rally in protest of President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
During Tuesday's (November 12) airing of his MSNBC show "Politics Nation with Al Sharpton," Sharpton announced that he would be holding the rally on Trump's inauguration day, which coincides with MLK Day, per The Hill.
“While Trump supporters will be on one side of Washington watching him take the oath of office, I will be at the nation’s capital working to keep the dream alive,” Sharpton said. “There has never been a more important time to peacefully organize and mobilize.”
Sharpton noted the rally would be nonviolent “unlike the 2021 insurrection.”
Trump has previously faced backlash over his remarks about King.
The president-elect falsely claimed his 2020 inauguration speech drew the same amount of people to the National Mall as King's "I Have a Dream" speech. Trump also compared Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, North Carolina's GOP gubernatorial candidate, to the civil rights icon.
Sharpton said January's rally will show the nation that there are many people who “still believe in what Dr. King stood for.”
“We fought too hard. We suffered too long. We took too many beatings. We spent too many nights in jail. We’ve been to too many funerals,” Sharpton said, adding in a social media post about the rally that “we won’t go back.”
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