Where Do We Go From Here?: Overcoming Inequity and Building Community
Duke University’s 2010 Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration Committee finds insight into Dr. King’s vision for an equitable society in his last published book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? In the book’s last chapter, he writes:
“The contemporary tendency in our society is to base our distribution on scarcity, which has vanished, and to compress our abundance into the overfed mouths of the middle and upper classes until they gag with superfluity. If democracy is to have breadth of meaning, it is necessary to adjust this inequity. It is not only moral, but it is also intelligent. We are wasting and degrading human life by clinging to archaic thinking. … The curse of poverty has no justification in our age.”
FEATURED EVENTS
Jan. 17 // Labor Leader, Activist Dolores Huerta to Speak at Duke’s MLK Program
Time: 3 p.m.
Duke Chapel
Free and open to the public
Jan. 18 // African Children’s Choir Comes to Duke
Time: 2 p.m.
Page Auditorium
Jan. 15 // Orlando Bagwell, producer and filmmaker
“Eyes on the Prize” and “Citizen King”
Time: 6 p.m.
Richard White Lecture Hall
Free and open to the public
Jan. 13 // “I AM the Dream” gallery exhibit
Time: 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
John Hope Franklin Center, first floor
Jan. 16 // MLK Habitat for Humanity Service
Time: 10 a.m.
West Campus Quad
Jan. 18 // MLK March and Candlelight Vigil
Time: 5 p.m.
Chapel Drive traffic circle
Jan. 19 // Chaos or Community: A Mosaic of Dr. King’s Living Dream
Time: 6 p.m.
Reynolds Industries Theater, Bryan Center
Jan. 20 // MLK Million Meals Service Event
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Time: 5- 9 p.m.
Southern High School. Transportation provided.
Update: All meals will be sent to Haiti.
Jan. 22 // SNMA 16th Annual MLK Banquet featuring Dr. Alice Coombs
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Millenium Hotel, Durham