Inauguration 2013: Rev. Jeremiah Wright calls on Obama to promote peace

WASHINGTON — The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the president’s former pastor whose sermons touched off a firestorm in the 2008 political campaign, urged Monday that President Obama heed the words of the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and transform the country into the world’s “No. 1 purveyor of peace.”

By Katherine Skiba

January 21, 2013