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Featuring: Dr Kesho Scott, Associate Professor of American Studies and Sociology at Grinnell College and an award winning writer. Dr Scott has led hundreds of professional and community-based workshops on “unlearning isms.” She has developed an “affirmative duty” technique for moving people toward being actively and personally anti-racist and anti-sexist.

Also presenting: Jackie Jordan of Marengo speaking on raising biracial children in a small town in Iowa and Pastor Kate West of Belle Plaine on holding conversations on race in rural Iowa.

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The keynote speaker will be Waypoint Client Specialist Betty Daniels.

All are welcome.

Coe College MLK Celebration 

Free to attend

8:30 – 9:00 AM        

Musical Performance by Blake Shaw, bassist/vocalist

9:00 – 9:05 AM

Opening Welcome by Dave McInally, Coe College President

9:05 – 9:10 AM

Welcome by Marc’ Bady, Dean of Students, Coe College

9:10 – 9:30 AM

Student, Faculty & Staff Readings/Testimonials
Readings and thoughts from the campus community

9:45 – 10:30 AM

SESSION 1A: Karl Cassel, Managing Partner Top Rank — "There is no better time than the present to do what is right."
SESSION 1B: Danette Patton, Visiting Assistant Professor of Communication & Rhetoric, Coe College — Intersectionality and the Civil Rights Movement

10:45 to 11:30 AM

SESSION 2A: Keesha Burke-Henderson, Director of Diversity and International Student Success, Mount Mercy University — Martin, the Renaissance and the Radical:  A look at speeches and writings beyond the dream.
SESSION 2B: Rodrick Dooley, Chief Equity Officer & Office of Learning and Leadership, Cedar Rapids Community School District — King Rules:  Managing conflict by working for peace

This informal social group usually meets every Friday morning. This week, join a discussion about books, movies and media that share Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy.

Participate in service projects around town, followed by a celebratory program including entertainment, a keynote speaker and free lunch.

Register to participate: volunteer.unitedwayjwc.org

Mount Mercy University hosts its annual MLK prayer breakfast, featuring keynote speaker Dr. Vincent Reid.

Begins at United Action for Youth, Eastdale Plaza, 1700 S. First Ave. #14, Iowa City, and ends at Mercer Park, 2701 Bradford Dr., Iowa City

$1 admission, with an activity booklet for children and a wall of reflection for adults and older youth.

All of the events are free and open to the Cornell community and the public.

Sew heart pillows for UI cardiac surgery patients. Open to Cornell and local community members.

https://news.cornellcollege.edu/2020/01/cornell-celebrates-life-mlk/

Howard University film professor S. Torriano Berry will present the 1929 silent film “Hellbound Train,” one of America’s earliest black religious films, which he resurrected after it was rediscovered in tattered fragments in a vault at the Library of Congress.

State of Iowa 
2021 Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Virtual Celebration
Iowans Committed to Eliminating Injustice
Join the Iowa Department of Human Rights - Office on the Status of African Americans
10:45 am 

https://www.facebook.com/iowadpthumanrights

A free public screening of the documentary “King in the Wilderness,” which examines the last three years of Dr. King’s life.

Additional events hosted by the University of Iowa MLK Human Rights Week, the Beloved Community Initiative and other groups will happen in Iowa City throughout the week. 

Find more details at mlk.uiowa.edu  and facebook.com/belovedcommunityinitiative.

A public reading of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, with representatives from local government, library partners, and community groups reading. The library will be open throughout the day, and patrons will be invited to share their dreams for a more just and peaceful world at the Annie Gill Craft Table.

All of the events are free and open to the Cornell community and the public.

The vigil begins in the Thomas Commons lobby, briefly moves to the MLK Memorial tree and then to Allee Chapel for candle lighting. A brief, optional Peace Eucharist follows with MLK theology-related scripture on love and social justice.

https://news.cornellcollege.edu/2020/01/cornell-celebrates-life-mlk/

A community meal will be followed by presentation of the Dr. Percy & Lileah Harris “Who Is My Neighbor?” Award to McKinley Middle School teacher Molly Lamb and Xavier High School student Haley Cummings, music by area choirs, readings by Diamond Roundtree, Zette St. Charles and Caleb Rainey and a performance by the Washington High School Step Team.

Meal: 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Service: 6:30pm

Eastern Iowa candidates that sought public office in 2019 will share their platform and why they ran for office.

Please join us (St. Paul's UMC) for our 22nd Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration as we gather to consider his legacy, hear his message with fresh ears, and accept his prophetic call to resist injustice in the forms it presents itself as we commit to working for justice. Click here for the link to St. Paul's Facebook.

Monday, January 18, 2021, at 7:00 pm, St. Paul’s will Facebook live stream our annual celebration with music and reflections. The annual "Dr. Percy and Lileah Harris 'Who Is My Neighbor' Award" will be awarded to an adult and a high school student who will be recognized for diligently working for justice in Linn County. This year there will be an additional new award, College Student Achievement Award. 

Hosted by St. Paul's United Methodist Church in collaboration with Coe College, First Light Christian Fellowship, Mount Mercy University, Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church, and the NAACP. With special thanks to the African American Museum of Iowa, Cedar Rapids Public Library, Cedar Rapids, Civil Rights Commission, and Iowa City Public Library.