ACT TO HONOR
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter.”
— Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The theme for this year’s MLK celebration activities, “Act to Honor,” encourages the community to honor the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by committing to civic engagement and activism.
FEATURED EVENTS
Jan. 15 // Political Strategist Donna Brazile to Speak at Duke’s MLK Program
Time: 3 p.m. Duke Chapel
Free and open to the public
Free Parking — Bryan Center Parking Garage
Jan. 13 // “Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin” with director Sam Pollard
Time: 5:30 p.m. reception, 6 p.m. film screening
The Garage, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse
114 S. Buchanan Blvd., Durham
Jan. 14 // Filmmaking Master Class
with Sam Pollard
Time: 11 a.m. – 1 p.m., Center for Documentary Studies
Jan. 18 // Michele Norris, co-host of NPR’s “All Things Considered”
Time: 8:00 p.m.
Reynolds Theater
Jan. 16 // MLK Million Meals Project
Time: 9:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Freeman Center, Duke University
1415 Faber St., Durham
Jan. 15 // Duke Chapel Sunday worship service with sermon by J. Kameron Carter, black church studies scholar
Time: 11:00 a.m.
Duke Chapel
Jan. 16 // Social movements exhibit followed by a sit-in reenactment
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Schaefer Mall, Bryan Center and Chapel Quad
Jan. 17 // “Dreaming Martin: Mountaintops, Memory and the Monumental Martin Luther King, Jr.”
Keynote address by African American studies professor Maurice Wallace
Time: Noon
North Pavilion Lower Lecture Hall, Duke Hospital
Jan. 19 // “Identifying Freedom: Implications for Civic Engagement” panel discussion
Time: Noon
Breedlove Room, Perkins Library
Jan. 10 // CNN Hero Guadalupe Arizpe De La Vega
Time: 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Searle Center Lecture Hall, Duke Hospital
(Employees only; registration required)