WASHINGTON: Joe Biden will journey to South Carolina on Sunday, his final full day as US president, the place he’ll mark a nationwide vacation honoring civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.Biden will go to Royal Missionary Baptist Church in Charleston, the place he’ll attend providers and discuss “the continued battle to make Dr King’s dream a actuality,” a White Home official mentioned.He may even attend an occasion on the metropolis’s Worldwide African American Museum.Monday is a nationwide vacation in america honoring King, the Nobel Peace Prize winner who advocated for the usage of non-violent resistance within the battle for equal rights for Black Individuals. He was assassinated in 1968.Monday can also be the day Donald Trump will probably be sworn in to succeed Biden as president. The White Home mentioned Biden’s “final official journey as president… will proceed his lengthy relationship with the state of South Carolina.”The state was pivotal in Biden’s path to securing the Democratic Social gathering’s presidential nomination in 2020. After lackluster showings within the preliminary nomination contests, Biden gained a convincing victory in South Carolina’s main, an affirmation that he retained vital backing amongst Black voters. Charleston can also be the house of the historic Mom Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, the place a white shooter killed 9 Black worshippers in 2015. Biden attended the funeral for Emanuel AME’s pastor, Clementa Pinckney, following the mass capturing perpetrated by a white gunman who had written a racist manifesto earlier than the killings. In a 2024 handle at Emanuel AME, Biden mentioned he wouldn’t have been elected president with out the help of the congregation and “the Black neighborhood of South Carolina.”
