With the theme “Hope in Action,” the 26th annual Martin Luther King Jr. commemoration launches with a number of events at Washington University in St. Louis, all free and open to the public.
The commemoration is set for 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 21, in Graham Chapel on the Danforth Campus. KTVI Fox 2 news anchor-reporter Kim Hudson is the program emcee. Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton will give the opening remarks and Adrienne D. Davis, JD, vice provost and the William M. Van Cleve Professor in the School of Law, will be the faculty keynote speaker.
The Rosa L. Parks Award for Meritorious Service to the Community will be presented during the ceremony. The program will feature the Visions Gospel Choir, the Orchestrating Diversity urban youth orchestra and other student presentations. A reception in Danforth University Center will follow.
For more information, contact Committee Chair Harvey R. Fields Jr., PhD, at (314) 935-5965 or visit diversity.wustl.edu/mlk.
Also in remembrance of the slain civil rights leader, the Society of Black Student Social Workers and the Office of Student Affairs at the Brown School will host its annual Financial Freedom Seminar Saturday, Jan. 19. “Building the Foundation to Your Financial Legacy,” takes place from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in Goldfarb Hall. To register and view a complete list of presenters, visit brownschool.wustl.edu or email sbssw@brownschool.wustl.edu or call (314) 935-3466.
The School of Medicine’s Office of Diversity Programs will present its annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Lecture at 4 p.m. Monday, Jan. 21, in the Eric P. Newman Education Center.
Guest speaker is David R. Williams, PhD, is the Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman Professor of Public Health at the Harvard School of Public Health and professor of African and African-American studies and sociology at Harvard University. He is internationally recognized as a leading social scientist with a focus on social influences on health and was a key scientific adviser to the award-winning PBS film series, Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?
For more information, call (314) 362-6854.
