The holiday proceedings took place in Ebenezer Baptist Church, where the late King once presided. The senior of that church was not present for the sermons and day of service. Rev. Raphael Warnock, who also serves as a senator for Georgia in Congress, was in Washington observing the inaugural proceedings.

Rev. Lorenzo Sewell, the senior pastor at 180 Church in Detroit, delivered a fired-up prayer at President Donald Trump's inauguration. At times, he directly quoted Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech.

Sewell quoted at length from Martin Luther King Jr.'s historic "I have a dream" speech during an invocation at President Donald J. Trump's inauguration.