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 […]
Duke University MLK Keynote Address January 14, 2018 in Duke Chapel Delivered by Sherrilyn A. Ifill Thank you so much. I was just actually enjoying the program, I didn’t want to get up to speak, I’ve been listening to these wonderful remarks and these wonderful presentations, so good afternoon to all of you, and I […]
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Duke Today On MLK Day, a Call for Citizens to Be ‘Democracy Maintenance Workers’ NAACP Legal Defense Fund president Sherrilyn Ifill decries ‘a disinvestment from public life’ https://today.duke.edu/2018/01/mlk-day-call-citizens-be-democracy-maintenance-workers Duke Chronicle Activists, City Leaders Remember Martin Luther King Jr., Discuss Race Relations http://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2018/01/activists-city-leaders-remember-martin-luther-king-jr-discuss-race-relations