Washington_ US president Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, are to attend a community action service in Washington, in honor of Martin Luther King, icon nonviolent struggle against racial discrimination, Prensa Latina reports.

Obama, the first African-American president, urged all citizens to go a little closer to the nation viewed by Luther King.

In 2013, the president delivered the main speech during the ceremony for the 50th anniversary of the historic march for equal civil rights in 1963 and the speech I have a dream by Luther King.

Such an event moved that year more than 250,000 people to the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC.

"His words belong to history, they have the prophetic virtue and an incomparable power in our time," Obama said then.

"Martin Luther King gave a powerful voice to the hopes of millions in the defense of civil rights," he said.

More than half a century of the historical discourse I have a dream, on August 28, 1963, eight out of 10 Americans still consider unfulfilled the dream of whom the activist spoke, when he advocated for a nation free of differences because color skin.

The shootings of blacks by police officers in various US cities in the last 18 months generate widespread protests across the country.

According to news sources, the police killed just over 1152 people in 2015, mostly dark-skinned.

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