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‘You are somebody’: West Philadelphia festival pays tribute to Martin Luther King Jr.’s local civil rights activism 2%
By Hannah Pajtis0%
8/3/2026, 1:31:32 PM
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Community members gathered in West Philadelphia Sunday for the second annual Freedom Now Fest, a festival commemorating the 61st anniversary of Rev.
Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1965 Freedom Now rally speech .
King delivered the speech Aug. 3 to 10,000 people at the corner of 40th Street and Lancaster Avenue, calling for civil rights, economic justice and community development.
“I came here from the front lines of the Civil Rights Movement in the South to tell you, ‘You are somebody.
Let us have a sense of somebody-ness.
Don’t let anybody make you think that you are a nobody,’” King told the crowd, per CBS News .
The festival, collaboratively planned by the MLK Lancaster Avenue Business Committee and other community organizations and businesses, celebrated Black history and paid tribute to King’s legacy.
Between 38th and 40th streets, individuals enjoyed live music, shopped at local Black-owned pop-up shops, observed public art installations and ate free collard greens, King’s favorite food.
Councilmember Jamie Gauthier gives introductory remarks for Freedom Now Fest outside of Plant and People, Aug.
2, 2026.
(Hannah Pajtis for WHYY)
“Folks often remember Dr.
King’s fight for civil rights, but by the end of his life, he was challenging America to think even bigger,” said Councilmember Jamie Gauthier, who gave introductory remarks.
“He wasn’t only confronting segregation; he was confronting poverty, economic exploitation, and the idea that some lives were valued more than others.”
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