Leek, Williams, Stanfield, Brock, Rome among MLK Jr. Day speakers

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All campuses of Indiana University began official observance of the holiday following passage of a resolution by the IU Board of Trustees. The resolution has called for "appropriate efforts to provide events which highlight the life and philosophy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on and surrounding the holiday." The first official MLK Day at IU was in 1998.

IUPUI
Members of the IUPUI community will begin their day of service at a breakfast with Sandra Leek, executive director of the Indiana Civil Rights Commission and a keynote address by Roslyn Brock, vice chair of the NAACP, is planned at the 33rd annual MLK Dinner in Indianapolis, sponsored by the IUPUI Black Student Union.

The IUPUI breakfast will begin at 8:30 a.m. at the Madame Walker Theatre Ballroom, 617 Indiana Ave., Indianapolis. Volunteers will receive a free breakfast and T-shirt. The year’s theme, "What One Day Can Do," will focus on service agencies located in the near Westside neighborhood bordering the Indianapolis campus.
http://www.mlkday.uc.iupui.edu

IU East
IU East hosted the opening of the award-winning "The Black Experience at Indiana University: Realizing the Dream 1816-2002" last night (Jan. 16) with an appearance by Kevin Rome, assistant vice chancellor for student life and diversity at IUPUI, on the Richmond campus.

IU Southeast
A candlelight vigil at 5 p.m. Tuesday (Jan. 21) is planned at IU Southeast.

IU Bloomington
An interfaith prayer service celebrating diversity is planned Monday at 9 a.m. at Whittenberger Auditorium of the Indiana Memorial Union in Bloomington, and Patricia Williams, professor of law at Columbia University and an outspoken critic of U.S. race relations, is scheduled to speak at 6 p.m. in the same location. She is the author of Seeing a Color-Blind Future: The Paradox of Race (Noonday, 1998); The Rooster’s Egg: On the Persistence of Prejudice (Harvard University Press, 1995) and The Alchemy of Race and Rights (Harvard University Press, 1991).

The Bloomington King Commission’s community-wide celebration will be at 7 p.m. at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater in downtown Bloomington. The event will feature keynote speaker John H. Stanfield II, chair of the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies at IUB, as well as remarks by Bloomington Mayor John Fernandez and Gerald Bepko, IU interim president. Musical selections will be performed by the IU African American Choral Ensemble, and the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Legacy Award and Web Page Design Contest awards will be presented.

A field trip to Bloomington historic connections to the Underground Railroad is planned for Tuesday (Jan. 21) at 6 p.m., sponsored by IU’s CommUNITY Educators. Participants are asked to gather at the activities room of Campus View Apartments to begin the tour.

For more program information and to access volunteer opportunities, go to this Web site:
http://www.indiana.edu/~libugls/MLK/

For information about local events on other IU campuses, refer to individual campus gateway pages.