The Riverside Church — a towering presence in Upper Manhattan — welcomes people of all faiths to do the work of the gospel. A big part of that has always been promoting social justice.
And more than two decades earlier, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his landmark "Beyond Vietnam" speech, in which he voiced his opposition to the Vietnam War and support for social policies reform, at Riverside on April 4, 1967 — exactly one year before he was assassinated.
"I think the real core of it is we care both about the individual person and their growth and development as a," Livingston said. "And we also care about the society, especially the most vulnerable among us." The church has a community theater for use by off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway performances and a well-renowned AAU basketball and academic development program, which counts among its alumni NBA Hall of Famers Chris Mullin and Nate "Tiny" Archibald.
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