19th Annual DCRI MLK Day Celebration Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2019 1:00 – 2:00 PM Duke Clinical Research Institute 200 Morris St. – Downtown Durham, NC (Room 1300) Keynote speaker: Pierce Freelon, professor, director, musician, Emmy-Award winning producer, and former candidate for mayor of Durham Keynote address title: “Kings and Queens of the Movement” Musical Performance […]
Author: Blyth Morrell
2019 MLK Commemoration Service: “Why Words Matter: From Dissent to Dialogue” “I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.” —-Bayard Rustin, Civil Rights organizer and close contemporary of Martin Luther King, Jr. In the grand historical arc of the human struggle for justice, we find ourselves observant of the cycle of destruction and creation. […]
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Jan. 21 // MLK Day Meal Packaging Event Time: 9 a.m.-noon, Duke School, Middle School Gym, 3716 Erwin Rd., Durham Duke will join Durham Tech, N.C. Central University, the Rotary Club of Durham and Duke School to bring 100,000 meals to the Triangle. Volunteers will package rice and bean casseroles and macaroni and cheese meals […]
‘Me too.’ founder to deliver keynote address Tarana Burke, an African-American civil rights activist and “me too.” movement founder, will deliver the keynote address for Duke University’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. commemoration on Sunday, Jan. 20. Burke, the senior director at Girls for Gender Equity, coined the phrase “me too.” in 2006 to raise […]