ATLANTA — Through generations of turmoil and tension, Ebenezer Baptist Church has been where many African-Americans in Atlanta have gathered to find comfort in their faith and in one another.

During the fight for civil rights, it had been the pastoral home of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., becoming known as “America’s Freedom Church.”

And on Tuesday afternoon, it will serve as a stage in the latest chapter of the nation’s grappling over racial inequality and injustice, with the funeral of Rayshard Brooks, a black man who was fatally shot by the Atlanta police.

“Rayshard Brooks wasn’t just running from the police,” the Rev. Raphael Warnock, the senior pastor at Ebenezer and a Democratic candidate for the United States Senate, will say in his sermon at the service, according to an excerpt released to The Associated Press.

“He was running from a system that makes slaves out of people,” he said, referring to Mr. Brooks’s past interactions with the criminal justice system. He was on probation and faced a return to prison if arrested that night. “A system that doesn’t give ordinary people who’ve made mistakes a second chance, a real shot at redemption.”

Mr. Brooks, 27, was killed on June 12 as tensions had already boiled over across the country after George Floyd died in May in the custody of the Minneapolis police. The killings yet again inflamed the longstanding tensions between minority communities and law enforcement, and also expanded into a larger grappling over the racial divides that figure into almost every facet of American life.

The costs of Mr. Brooks’s funeral are being covered by Tyler Perry, the entertainment mogul who is a prominent figure in Atlanta, family representatives said. Bernice King, the daughter of Dr. King, is also expected to speak, along with friends and relatives.

The funeral, with the sanctuary closed to the public, comes after a viewing on Monday that drew a vast crowd on a stormy afternoon, with some wearing T-shirts that said “Justice for Rayshard Brooks” as they waited in line to pay their respects.

Mr. Brooks was killed after two police officers were called to a Wendy’s where, the authorities said, Mr. Brooks had fallen asleep in the drive-through.

As the officers moved to arrest Mr. Brooks he hit an officer, grabbed the other officer’s Taser, fired it, and took off running. One of the officers, Garrett Rolfe, discharged his own Taser and reached for his 9-millimeter Glock handgun as Mr. Brooks turned and discharged the stolen Taser again. Mr. Rolfe fired, striking Mr. Brooks twice in the back.

Within hours, Mr. Rolfe was fired from the Police Department, and the city’s police chief, Erika Shields, resigned. Several days later, the Fulton County district attorney, Paul L. Howard Jr., announced that Mr. Rolfe was being charged with 11 counts, including felony murder and aggravated assault. The other officer, Devin Brosnan, who was placed on administrative duty, was charged with aggravated assault and violating his oath as an officer.

“My uncle did not die in vain,” Chassidy Evans, Mr. Brooks’s niece, said in a recent news conference, noting how her uncle had become part of a larger group known by the country for how they died.

“His life mattered,” she said. “George Floyd’s life mattered. Breonna Taylor’s life mattered. Michael Brown’s life mattered. Sandra Bland’s life mattered. I’m not only asking the city of Atlanta to stand with us. I’m asking for everyone in this nation to stand with us as we seek justice for Rayshard.”