Detroit Storytelling is "stand up and do" learning where students create and
explore important episodes from local history. As college students in the 1960s at Fisk
University, you are recruited into the Civil
Rights movement. Using First Amendment rights and non-violent tactics, we make choices and
take action that leads to the lunch counter sit-ins, changing an unjust society forever.
Everyone participates, using music, movement, role-playing and loads of imagination.
Detroit
Storytelling is "stand up and do" learning where students create and explore important
episodes from local history. As friends of
Rosa Parks, you notice her unusual qualities even at an early age. We join her in the
events that shape her character leading her to decisive action. Then as members of her
community, we support her stand as the Montgomery Bus Boycott takes shape. An important
story about individual and community activism comes to life using your ideas, role-playing
slogans and songs.
JOHN TRUDELL
Date:
Saturday, January 17
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Place: Mendelssohn Theatre
Contact: Tara Young <tlyoung@umich.edu> 313.936.1055
Sponsors: MLK Symposium Planning Committee and the Native American Student Association
John Trudell is a Santee Sioux poet, a musician and one of the most powerful voices of the human spirit today. He came to prominence as a long time activist for Native American rights and freedoms, as the national spokesperson
during the Indians of All Tribes Occupation of Alcatraz Island in 1969, culminating in the formation of American
Indian Movement (AIM) in the 1970's. He was the National Chairman of AIM, 1973-1979, at a time of great turbulence and intensity
for Native Americans, culminating in the siege of Pine Ridge, the Occupation of Wounded Knee, the Jumping Bull Incident
(two FBI agents, one Native American were killed), and the years of trials and continuous attacks following these events. These
events mark the beginning of intense surveillance and scrutinization of John Trudell by the FBI, A 17,000 page FBI file is testimony to this, as well as the overt beginning of a war on the members of AIM by the FBI's cointelpro factions to subvert the
movement.
Sunday, January 18
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Dialogue
Together We Can...
Date: Sunday, January 18
Time: 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Place: Michigan Union, Pendleton Room
Contact: Christina Branson <chrisbra@umich.edu> 313.996.1556
Sponsor: Sister to Sister
Together everything is possible! This dialogue will promote the idea of "everyone" on race issues by means of positivity to increase UNITY.
Lecture and Performance
Celebrating Our Cultural Past
Date: Sunday, January 18
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Place: Mendelssohn Theatre
Contact: Faye Burton <fayeb@umich.edu> 313.764.0586 or Willis Patterson
Sponsors: School of Music, Dance and Theater
The Life of Harriet Tubman: One Woman Show with performances by students in dance
and voice. Features Leslie McCurdy.
Performance
Arabesque: Poetry, Song and Dance
Date: Monday, January 19
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Place:U club, Michigan Union
Contact: Susan Nakley <smn@umich.edu> 313.997.9585
Sponsors: American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), and Michigan Union Programming Board
Join ADC for a celebration of Arab-American culture. The performance will include a poetry
reading, live music, and folk dancing.
THE BOYS CHOIR OF HARLEM
Date: Sunday, January 18
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Place: Hill Auditorium
Sponsors: The University Musical Society with support from Detroit Edison, Beacon Investment
Company, MLK Symposium Planning Committee, and media partner WDET, 101.9 FM.
Contact: The University Musical Society box office <umstix@umich.edu> 313.764.2538
Chosen from a 200 member concert choir, the young men who make up the Boys Choir of Harlem
joyously embrace the challenges of classical and modern music, popular song, spirituals,
gospel and jazz, highlighted by choreography and an unerring sense of showmanship.
In addition to recording the film soundtracks for Spike Lee's Jungle Fever and Malcolm X,
they have performed for Nelson Mandela's arrival in the United States after his long
imprisonment, at an opening session of the United Nations General Assembly, and for several
White House state dinners.
Tickets are $12, $18, $22, and $26 and are available at the University Musical Society box office
at 764.2538. The box office is located in Burton Tower and open from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Monday through Friday and from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on Saturday.
Monday, January 19
(Back to Main)
Community Service Projects:
Live the Dream: Volunteer and Make the Difference
Date: Monday, January 19
Time: 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Place: Various Detroit-area locations
Contact: Randy Frank <rfrank@ab-f1.umd.umich.edu> 313.593.5555
Sponsors: University of Michigan-Dearborn
Symposium Memorial Lecture |
KEYNOTE LECTURER: DR. CORNEL WEST
Date: Monday, January 19
Time: 10:30 a.m.
Place: Hill Auditorium
Sponsor: MLK Symposium Planning Committee
Contact: Tara Young <tlyoung@umich.edu> 313.936.1055
Dr. Cornel West's philosophy is not an abstract discipline, but rather a polemical weapon
that attempts to transform linguistic, social, cultural and political
tradition to increase the scope of individual development and democratic
actions. His work-- influenced by traditions as diverse as the Baptist Church,
American transcendentalism and literature, the Black Panthers, and European
philosophy--seeks to revive the best of liberalism, populism and democratic socialism.
After attending public school in Sacramento, CA, Cornel West went to Harvard University
where he graduated magna cum laude in 1973. He then attended Princeton University where
he received his M.A. in 1975 and his Ph.D. in 1980. He returned to Princeton in 1987 as
Professor of Religion and Director of the Afro-American Studies Department before joining
the faculty at Harvard University in 1994. Dr. West currently serves at Harvard as
Professor of Afro-American Studies and Philosophy of Religion.
"Preeminent African American intellectual of our time" according to Henry Louis Gates,
Jr., who joined forces with Dr. West at Harvard in 1994, a year after the publication
of his best-selling, Race Matters. Dr. West cuts a singular figure in public
life with his afro, three-piece suits, and desultory mix of impassioned class analysis
and preacherly solicitations. Alternately calling himself a "prophetic pragmatist" and
"prophetic Marxist" in Race Matters, West heavily criticized middle-class blacks
as "decadent" and urged whites to stop "ignoring the psychic pain that
racism has inflicted on the urban poor." Dr. West's social criticism often touches on
popular culture: in hip-hop, he sees the nihilism of the black underclass; in the
music's suburban popularity, he perceives the "Afro-Americanization of American Youth"
and the "commodification of black rage."
Professor West has written numerous articles and is the author of ten books including the
two-volume Beyond Eurocentrism and Multiculturalism (Common Courage Press, 1993);
Breaking Bread (South End Press, 1991); Race Matters (Beacon Press, 1993);
Keeping Faith (Routledge, 1993), Jews and Blacks: Let the
Healing Begin (Putnam Books, 1995), co-authored with Michael Lerner; and Restoring
Hope: Conversations on the Future of Black America (Beacon Press, October 1997).
His forthcoming book, The War Against Parents, is co-written with
Sylvia Ann Hewlett. A paradigmatic public intellectual, Dr. West has collaborated with bell hooks and Tikkun editor Michael Lerner. Dr. West
is also honorary co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America. His current academic
interests include problems facing the African American urban underclass in America; the
development of an ongoing dialogue between Blacks and Jews; and the creation of a
nationwide parents movement across race and class that responds to the desperate needs
of mothers and fathers. Besides his numerous publications, Dr. West is a well-respected and highly popular
lecturer; his speaking style, formed by his roots in the Baptist Church, provides a
blend of drama, knowledge, and inspiration.
BLACK STUDENT UNION MARCH
Date: Monday, January 19
Time: 12:00 noon
Place: Black Student Union
Contact: Black Student Union; 313.647.1067
Sponsor: Black Student Union
The March will begin at 12:00 noon. Participants assemble at the corner of South
University and Forest Avenue at 11:30 p.m., march to the Diag, and assemble to
listen to speakers. All faculty, staff, student and the community at large are invited
to participate.
Lecture
Health Sciences Schools MLK Lecture
Date: Monday, January 19
Time: 12:00 noon
Place:University Hospital, Towsley Center, Dow Auditorium
Contact: Joyce Mitchell <jmitchel@umich.edu> 313.764.8185
Sponsor: Health Sciences Schools
Features David R. Williams, Senior Associate Research Scientist, Institute for
Social Research and Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan.
Symposium Community Service Project |
ACTING ON THE DREAM
Date: Monday, January 19
Time: 1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Place: Kickoff at 1600 Chemistry Bldg.
and then departure for various community organizations in the Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti and Detroit
areas
Contact: Jeffrey Kosiorek <parrothd@umich.edu> 313.936.2437
Sponsors: Project Serve and the MLK Symposium Planning Committee
In 1994, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Federal Holiday Commission issued
a challenge to communities: Honor the memory of Dr. King by celebrating
MLK Day with a day of service. In response to this challenge, the MLK Symposium
Planning Committee in cooperation with Project SERVE sponsored the first
Acting on the Dream during the 1995 MLK Symposium. In its first year, about
100 members of the U-M Ann Arbor campus community participated in the program.
Last year, participation in Acting on the Dream almost tripled.
This year's program will be even larger, with opportunities available
with local and Detroit-area community agencies. All U-M students, faculty,
and staff are eligible to participate. There will be a brief
introductory session and then participants will be lead to various
community-based agencies in the Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti area.
Transportation will be provided to and from the community sites.
Participants receive a free T-shirt and are invited to a reflection dinner
and slide show to be held the week following Acting on the Dream.
Date: Monday, January 19
Time: 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Place: Rackham Auditorium
Sponsors: MLK Symposium Planning Committee, University Relations, Faculty Senate, Career Planning & Placement, Minority Affairs Commission, Office of the Executive Vice President, and the Chief Financial Officer
Contact: Tara Young <tlyoung@umich.edu> 313.936.1055
Features Charles Ogletree Jr., Ronald Takaki, Theodore Shaw, U-M Provost Nancy Cantor,
Robert Porter, U-M General Counsel Liz Barry, Chuck D., and Deborah J. Carter.
More details will follow. The Colloquium emphasizes issues related to pro-affirmative action, health care, poverty,
education, campus climate and the lawsuit against the University of Michigan. The
facilitator would guide the panelists toward providing information, demystifying
assumptions, and finally creating solutions at the Colloquium's conclusion.
Charles Ogletree Jr. - Facilitator
Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Deborah J. Carter
Deputy Director, American Council on Education's Office of Minorities in Higher Education
Theodore M. Shaw
U-M Law School Assistant Professor of Law
Associate Director-Counsel, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.
Ronald Takaki
Chairman of the Ethnic Studies Department of University of California, Berkeley
and author of six books, including Strangers from a Different Shore.
Nancy Cantor
Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, University of Michigan
Chuck D
Rap artist and musician, author, and political activist
Liz Barry
Interim Co-General Counsel, University of Michigan
Robert Porter
Associate Professor and Director, Tribal Law and Government Center
University of Kansas School of Law
Sylvia Hurtado
Associate Professor of Education
School of Education, University of Michigan
James S. Jackson
Professor of Psychology
Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
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Ronald Takaki |
Chuck D |
Detroit Storyliving's "RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE"
Date: Monday, January 19
Time: 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Place: *
Contact: Adrea Korthase <adreamk@umich.edu or Terrell Cole <tlove@umich.edu > 313.936.1055
Sponsor: MLK Symposium Planning Committee
* Participants must RSVP with Adrea or Terrell to participate in each session and be
notified about location. For children 10 years and older. Seating capacity is limited to 50 persons.
Features Josh White Jr. and Randi Douglas telling the story of the Nashville student lunch counter
sit-ins.
Detroit Storytelling is "stand up and do" learning where students create and
explore important episodes from local history. As college students in the 1960s at Fisk
University, you are recruited into the Civil Rights movement. Using First Amendment
rights and non-violent tactics, we make choices and
take action that leads to the lunch counter sit-ins, changing an unjust society forever.
Everyone participates, using music, movement, role-playing and loads of imagination.
Radio Broadcast
A Conversation with Dr. Cornel West: Live on Michigan Radio WUOM 91.7 FM
Date: Monday, January 19
Time: 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Place: WUOM 91.7 FM
Contact: Harriett Teller <harriett@umich.edu> 313.764.9210
Sponsor: Michigan Radio WUOM 91.7 FM
Live broadcast featuring Dr. Cornel West, Keynote Lecturer for the 1998 Reverend Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr. Symposium. The program will be hosted by John Walters,
Michigan Radio News Producer. Listeners are invited to call in their
questions or comments to 313.647.3484.
Film and Panel
War, Race, and Citizenship
Date: Monday, January 19
Time: 1:00 p.m.
Place: Angell Hall, Auditorium A
Contact: Jan Fisk <janfisk@umich.edu> 313.647.4882
Sponsor: Department of History, Clements Library, Program in American Culture, and the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies
A panel discussion in conjunction with the film, Glory. Three historians discuss issues of
war, race, and citizenship as well as the complexities of using film in teaching. Features
Eric Foner, Professor of History, Columbia University; Michele Mitchell, Postdoctoral Fellow,
Rutgers University; and Julius Scott, Assistant Professor of History and
Afroamerican Studies, University of Michigan.
Performance
We've Come This Far By Faith Through Song
Date: Monday, January 19
Time: 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Place: Rackham Amphitheatre
Contact: Monica Johnson <monisu@umich.edu> 313.763.1317
Sponsor: Women of Color Task Force
In memory of Dr. King, a tribute to African American music: African, spiritual, and gospel.
Features the Jesse H. Bishop Crusaders. The program is followed by a reception in Assembly Hall.
The Jesse H. Bishop Crusaders
Presentation
World Without Violence: Parallel Visions of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Gandhi
Date: Monday, January 19
Time: 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Place: Michigan Union
Contact: Eric Amin <ericamin@umich.edu> 313.669.9921
Sponsors: Indian American Student Association
This presentation cordially invites members of the university community to discover
the vast similarities and uncanny parallels between Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
and Mohandas K. Gandhi shared along their respective roads to freedom.
Lecture
A Drum Major For Justice: Clarence Page
Date: Monday, January 19
Time: 1:30 p.m.
Place: Business School, Hale Auditorium, Assembly Hall
Contact: Doris A. Sanford <occasions@ccmail.bus.umich.edu> 313.936.3515
Sponsor: University of Michigan Business School
Features Clarence Page, the 1989 Pulitzer Prize winner for Commentary, who has been a
columnist and editorial board member for the Chicago Tribune since July 1984. His column is
syndicated nationally by Tribune Media Services and he does a twice-weekly commentary on
WGN-TV, Chicago. As a freelance writer, Clarence Page has published articles in Chicago
Magazine, Emerge and the Wall Street Journal. Harper Collins most recently published his
new book, Showing My Color: Impolite Essays on Race and Identity.
Lecture
Race, Public Opinion and the Welfare State
Date: Monday, January 19
Time: 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Place: 140 Lorch Hall, Askwith Auditorium
Contact: Yolanda Marino <ylm@umich.edu> 313.764.3490
Sponsors: School of Public Policy, Law School, Department of Sociology, and the Program on Poverty, the Underclass and Public Policy
Features Professor Lawrence Bobo, Department of Sociology and African American Studies
at Harvard University.
Panel and Dialogue
Affirmative Action in the New Millenium
Date: Monday, January 19
Time: 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Place: School of Dentistry, Kellogg Auditorium G005
Contact: Cara Voss <cvoss@umich.edu> 313.647.4156
Sponsors: School of Dentistry
Features speakers who examine the past, present, and future of affirmative action.
Individuals may also participate in dialogue groups. Program concludes with a reception
hosted by Dean Kotowicz and the School of Dentistry Multicultural Affairs Committee.
Date: Monday, January 19
Time: 2:00 p.m.
Place: Michigan Union Ballroom
Contact: Julie Herrada <jherrada@umich.edu> 313.764.9377
Sponsors: University Library, School of Information, and ITD
Features monumental Accomplishment writer Patrice Gaines, winner of the National Association
of Black Journalists Award for Commentary and a reporter for the Washington Post since
1985. Lecture will be a live broadcast on UMTV.
Lecture and Performance
Celebrating Our Cultural Past
Date: Monday, January 19
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Place: School of Music, McIntosh Auditorium
Contact: Faye Burton <fayeb@umich.edu> 313.764.0586 or Willis Patterson
Sponsor: School of Music, Dance and Theater
Features Paul Lawrence Dunbar, the School of Music, and
Dance and Theatre students present works by African American composers.
Will also feature Professor Herbert Martin and Leslie McCurdy from the University of Dayton.
Dialogue and Panel
College of Engineering Student-Staff-Faculty Forum and Reception
Date: Monday, January 19
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Place: Chrysler Auditorium Lobby
Contact: Lisa Payton <lpayton@umich.edu> 313.647.7151
Sponsor: College of Engineering
Heightened controversy around affirmative action policies and a pending lawsuit against
the University now potentially threaten these efforts. With increasing clarity, it is
evident that we must be directed and focused as we proceed into the future. In the
forum, the audience will learn more about the specifics of the lawsuit, and how the
University and the College view affirmative action as important to their
diversity efforts.
Exhibit and Presentation
Affirmative Action, Why Now?
Date:Monday, January 19
Time: 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Place: Michigan Union, Pendleton Room
Contact: Dedra Miles <dmiles@umich.edu> 313.764.8774
Sponsors: Markley Multicultural Affairs Council and Housing Special Programs
Features Paul Collins, artist of fine art, and Randolph Brown, poet and
painter of the Angela Davis mural in the Angela Davis Lounge in Mary Markley Residence
Hall. Paul's art is about people, their foibles, their trials and tribulations throughout
the world.
Panel
Defending Affirmative Action: How to Defeat the Effort to Resegregate Higher Education
Date: Monday, January 19
Time: 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Place: Michigan Union, Kuenzel Room
Contact: Jessica Curtin <jcurtin@umich.edu> 313.332.1188
Sponsor: Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action By Any Means Necessary
This panel will present a perspective for defeating the effort to resegregate higher education
and for building a new militant integrated civil rights movement that can eliminate
racist segregation and inequality that exists in American society. Features Shanta Driver,
national organizer for BAMN and former member of Black Panther Party; and
Heather Bergman, California BAMN organizer at Berkeley.
Detroit Storyliving's "ROSA AND THE BUS BOYCOTT"
Date: Monday, January 19
Time: 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Place: *
Contact: Adrea Korthase <adreamk@umich.edu> or Terrell Cole <tlove@umich.edu > 313.936.1055
Sponsor: MLK Symposium Planning Committee
* Participants MUST RSVP with Adrea or Terrell to participate in each session and be
notified about location. For children 10 years and older. Seating capacity is limited to 50 persons.
Features Josh White Jr. and Randi Douglas telling the story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Detroit
Storytelling is "stand up and do" learning where students create and explore important
episodes from local history. As friends of
Rosa Parks, you notice her unusual qualities even at an early age. We join her in the
events that shape her character leading her to decisive action. Then as members of her
community, we support her stand as the Montgomery Bus Boycott takes shape. An important
story about individual and community activism comes to life using your ideas, role-playing
slogans and songs.
Performance
Our Stories: Celebrate the Dream
Date: Monday, January 19
Time: 3:30 p.m. to 4:45 p.m.
Place: Hill Auditorium
Contact: George Elliott <dsbell@umich.edu> 313.763.9379
Sponsor: Business and Finance Diversity Committee
A vibrant performance featuring a blend of dramatic readings, acting, song and dance to
celebrate multiculturalism and unity. Features Steve Dixon, Descendents of the Monkey
God Dance/Acting Troop, Biichini Bia Congo African Congalese, and Res Rep Student Acting
Troop.
Lecture
Doing Science: Reflections of an African American Scientist
Date: Monday, January 19
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Place: Natural Science Building Auditorium
Contact: Carl Lawson <cjlawson@umich.edu> 313.764.7923
Sponsor: Black Biology Association and the Biology Department
Features Dr. George Jones, Goodrich Professor of Biology at Emory University.
Dr. Jones will share his experiences as a minority biologist, provide advice for the success
of underrepresented minorities in the natural sciences, and share his work as a successful
research scientist.
Lecture
MLK/Physics Seminar
Date: Monday, January 19
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Place: 170 Dennison
Contact: Katie Freese and Elaine Moore <mooree@umich.edu> 313.647.4334 or 313.936.0657
Sponsors: Physics Department
Features Dr. Warren Washington, National Center for Atmospheric Research. Dr. Washington is an outstanding scientist and role model
for African American students.
Panel
Why We Can't Wait: Improving the Health of People of Color
Date: Monday, January 19
Time: 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Place: Alumni Center
Contact: Joyce Mitchell <1998_MLK_Health_Science_Committee@umich.edu> 313.764.8185
Sponsor: The Health Sciences Schools
Features experts in the fields of health focusing on people of color.
"Dialogos - Dialogues"
Date: Monday, January 19
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Place: Michigan League, Henderson Room
Contact: Shanon Muir <slmuir@umich.edu> 313.998.0734
Sponsors: Black and Latina Women's Issues Project
A dialogue that attempts to bridge the gap between the Black and Latino communities.
The MLK MUSICAL REVUE
Date: Monday, January 19
Time: 8:00 p.m.
Place: Power Center
Sponsors: MLK Symposium Planning Committee
Contact: Tara Young <tlyoung@umich.edu> 313.936.1055
Features local, church and community choirs including the Faith Clinic Community Choir,
Inkster Community Choraliers, Ecorse High School Alumni Gospel Choir, and the
University of Michigan Gospel Chorale.
University of Michigan Gospel Chorale
Panel
Minority in Japan
Date: Monday, January 19
Time: *
Place: Lane Hall
Contact: Kanako Ono <onok@umich.edu> 313.332.9629
Sponsor: Center for Japanese Studies
This panel provides information about the struggles, historical backgrounds,
and future considerations for minorities in Japan. Features Roy Hanashiro.
Tuesday, January 20
(Back to Main)
Presentation
Pediatrics Grand Rounds
Date: Tuesday, January 20
Time: 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.
Place: Maternal and Child Health Auditorium, Room F2305
Contact: Mary Ellen Bozynski <maryeb@umich.edu> 313.763.7512
Sponsor: Department of Pediatrics
Lecture
Sarcoidosis
Date: Tuesday, January 20
Time: 8:00 a.m.
Place:1910 Taubman Center, Dermatology Conference Room
Contact: Debbie Kureth <dkureth@umich.edu> 313.936.6674
Sponsor: Department of Dermatology
Features Bernett L. Johnson, Jr., M.D., Vice Chairman and Professor of Dermatology
at the University of Pennsylvania.
Film
Martin Luther King Jr. Videos
Date: Tuesday, January 20
Time: 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Place: Michigan Union, Pond Room
Contact: Sue Rasmussen <srasmuss@umich.edu> 313.763.0236
Sponsor: Affirmative Action Office
A series of 1 hour videos covering events in the life of Martin Luther King Jr. and
highlights of the civil rights movement.
Lecture
The Skin of your Black Patient
Date: Tuesday, January 20
Time: 12:00 noon
Place:1910 Taubman Center, Dermatology Conference Room
Contact: Debbie Kureth <dkureth@umich.edu> 313.936.6674
Sponsor: Department of Dermatology
Features Bernett L. Johnson, Jr., M.D., Vice Chairman and Professor of Dermatology
at the University of Pennsylvania.
Potluck
Celebration of Diversity in Honor of Dr. King
Date: Tuesday, January 20
Time: 12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m.
Place:University Hospital B2C430
Contact:Sue Merkel <smerkel@umich.edu> 313.936.9522
Sponsor: Department of Radiation Oncology
Departmental sharing of ideas, traditions, and food to celebrate and promote Dr.
King's vision.
Presentation
Discrimination, Race, and Health: Findings from the Detroit Area Study
Date: Tuesday, January 20
Time: 12 noon to 2:00 p.m.
Place:6050 Institute for Social Research, 426 Thompson
Contact: Karen Gibson <kagibson@umich.edu> 313.763.9820
Sponsor: Survey Research Center
Features David R. Williams, Senior Associate Research Scientist, Survey Research
Center and Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan.
Lecture
Environmental Justice and the Ideals of Dr. King
Date: Tuesday, January 20
Time: 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Place: Dana Building, Room 1040
Contact: Crystal Fortwangler <crystalf@umich.edu> 313.663.2465
Sponsor: Environmental Justice Group and Environmental Theme Semester
Features Vernice Miller of the Natural Resources Defense Council, who presents a
dynamic lecture on environmental justice, and how it relates to the ideals and vision of
Dr. King.
Panel
An Introduction to Critical Race Theory
Date:Tuesday, January 20
Time: 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Place:Hutchins Hall, Law School
Contact: Rebecca Kline <bkline@umich.edu> 313.763.7245
Sponsors: University of Michigan Law School and the Michigan Journal of Race and Law
Features Keith Aoki, Assistant Professor Law, University of Oregon School of Law;
Cheryl Harris, Assistant Professor of Law Chicago-Kent School of Law;
Gary Peller, Professor of Law Georgetown University Law Center;
Juan F. Perea , Professor of Law University of Florida Law School; and Moderator
Deborah Malamud , Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School. This panel
discussion explores the development of critical race theory, from its roots through newer
theories, in an effort to promote discourse within the law school and university
on issues relating to race, ethnicity, and the law.
Lecture
Fighting Racism the Environmental Way: The Struggle for America's
Conscience in the 1990s
Date: Tuesday, January 20
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Place: Dana Building, Room 1040
Contact: Debbi Solowczuk <dsolo@umich.edu>
Sponsor: School of Natural Resources and Environment
Features Professor Michael Gelobter from Rutgers University who lectures on how the
present community-based model of struggle for environmental justice is reinvigorating
anti-racist efforts in America. He will demonstrate how critical race
studies and theories of racial formation fall short in providing a
forward looking model of political action in the 1990s.
Presentation
Footsteps into Change
Date: Tuesday, January 20
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Place:Angell Hall Auditorium B
Contact:Kim Mikita <kimikita@umich.edu> 313.930.2860
Sponsor: Environmental Theme Semester
A multimedia presentation that chronicles the pilgrimage of Patrick Giantanio on his 4000
mile walk across Africa to end hunger. Features Patrick Giantonio.
Film
All Power to the People: The Black Panther Party and Beyond
Date: Tuesday, January 20
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Place: Trotter House
Contact: Corey Fielder <mim136@mim.org> 313.930.6452
Sponsors: Revolutionary Anti-Imperialist League, Maoist Internationalist Movement
Lee Lew-Lee's award winning documentary covers the history of the assassinations of Dr.
King, Malcolm X and COINTELPRO activities and its affect on members of the
American Indian Movement and the Black Panther Party. Film shows both the
development of movements aimed to create social equality and the
repression these movements faced.
Workshop
Bridging the Gap: Resolving Conflict Through Effective Communication
Date: Tuesday, January 20
Time: 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Place: Michigan Union, Anderson Room
Contact: Melissa Walsh <mcwalsh@umich.edu> 313.663.8208 or Kristen Vogt <kvogt@umich.edu> 313.741.4486
Sponsors: Student Mediation Services and the Office Student Conflict Resolution
Have you been in a situation where there is a breakdown in communication and emotions are
intense? The interactive workshop provides an alternative to violence, using communication
skills to resolve conflict with respect and justice.
Workshop
HUES Collective - Help Create a Multicultural Magazine
Date: Tuesday, January 20
Time: 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Place: South Quad, Ambatana Lounge
Contact: Dyann Logwood <dclife@umich.edu> 313.677.8787
Sponsors: HUES and ESP
An invitation for women and men to brainstorm, create, and contribute to HUES, a magazine
for women of all cultures, shapes, and lifestyles.
Wednesday, January 21
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DOLORES HUERTA
Date: Wednesday, January 21
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Place: Mendelssohn Theatre
Contact: Tara Young <tlyoung@umich.edu> 313.936.1055
Sponsors: MLK Symposium Planning Committee, MEChA, La Voz Mexicana, and Alianza
An unyielding advocate for the rights of women, immigrants, and people of color, Dolores
Huerta has changed the political landscape of California and the nation. Dolores Huerta grew up
in California's central valley, with the poverty of migrant farm
workers all around her. She taught elementary school and worked for civic improvements for
the Mexican American community. She helped organize voter registration drives, and succeeded
in getting the local police and hospitals to add Spanish-speaking officers and workers. In her quest for
social justice, she has faced strikebreakers on picket lines and police from the dusty fields
of the San Joaquin Valley to the streets of San Francisco. In 1962, Dolores Huerta turned her energies toward
organizing a union to improve working conditions for agricultural workers. Her efforts have brought about major changes
including collective bargaining for farm workers, the banning of dangerous pesticides, and
an increase in the Federal minimum wage. After years of strikes and nationwide boycotts, the
United Farm Workers union was born. Dolores Huerta cofounded the United Farm Workers of America (UFW)
union with Cesar Chavez, who called her "totally fearless, both mentally and physically."
Dolores Huerta is currently the Secretary-Treasurer of the United Farm Workers of America.
Film
The Color of Fear
Date: Wednesday, January 21
Time: 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Place: Student Activities Building, Maize and Blue Auditoriums
Contact: Edith Bletcher <emkb@umich.edu> 313.763.4119
Sponsor: Office of Financial Aid
A documentary by Lee Mun Wah about racism in which eight men clash and learn about racism at a
weekend retreat.
Film
Children in America's Schools
Date: Wednesday, January 21
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Place: LS&A Building, Room 4051
Contact: Michele Ruffino <loraine@umich.edu> 313.764.7239
Sponsor: Undergraduate Sociology Society
A movie based on the book Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools by Jonathon Kozol. Narrated by
Bill Moyers, produced by Jeffrey Hayden and Kelley Cauthen.
Exhibit
1998 UROP Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Symposium, Community Based Research:
Developing Knowledge to Benefit Communities
Date: Wednesday, January 21
Time: 6:30 p.m to 8:00 p.m.
Place: Chemistry Building
Contact: Daren Hubbard <dari@umich.edu> 313.763.4830
Sponsor: Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program
A symposium of community based research across multiple academic disciplines.
Film
Ghosts of Mississippi
Date: Wednesday, January 21
Time: 7:00 p.m to 11:00 p.m.
Place: Michigan League Underground
Contact: Nikita Easley <nikitaae@engin.umich.edu> 313.763.0721
Sponsors: NAACP and the Michigan League Programming Office
We will show a film in conjunction with the MLK Symposium topics, serve food
and have a discussion about the movie.
Panel
Interracial Couples Panel Discussion
Date: Wednesday, January 21
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Place: Michigan Union, Room 4050
Contact: Daniel Filstrup <dfilstru@umich.edu> 313.997.0739
Sponsor: Baha'i Club
We will make and hand out race unity ribbons to university students on the diag on
January 20 and January 21. The interracial couples discussion will consist of interracial
couples who discuss their relationships.
Thursday, January 22
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Video
Celebration of Diversity in Honor of Dr. King
Date: Thursday, January 22
Time: 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Place:University Hospital B2C430
Contact:Sue Merkel <smerkel@umich.edu> 313.936.9522
Sponsor: Department of Radiation Oncology
Features "Documentary on Dr. King". Departmental sharing of ideas and traditions to
celebrate and promote Dr. King's vision.
Lecture and Forum
Do Physicians Have a Choice?: Abortion and the Problem of Physician Conscience
Date: Thursday, January 22 - January 23
Time: 12:00 noon
Place: School of Medicine
Sponsors: Christian Medical and Dental Society
Contact: Heather Bunting <norine@umich.edu> 313.669.6054
Features Dr. Mildred Jefferson who will reflect on the implications for doctors as well as
patients of viewing mothers and their babies with unequal concern, and will consider
what definition of life might properly guide physician actions. Lecture is held on
January 22 and is followed by an open forum on January 23.
Film
Secrets and Lies
Date: Thursday, January 22
Time: 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Place: Psychological Clinic, 2463 East Hall
Contact: Kimberlyn Leary, Ph.D. <kimleary@umich.edu> 313.764.3471
Sponsor: Psychological Clinic
Film presentation and discussion on psychology of race and racial differences.
Lecture
Partial-Birth Abortions: A Breach in the Wall of Civil Rights Protections?
Date: Thursday, January 22
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Place: Law School, Room 100
Sponsor: Christian Legal Society
Contact: Jennifer Jordan <jljordan@umich.edu> 313.975.4083
Features Dr. Mildred Jefferson who will address both medical and civil rights aspects
of partial-birth abortions. Dr. Jefferson is the first
African American woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School (Class of 1951).
Awards Dinner
North Campus Spirit of MLK Student Recognition Dinner
Date: Thursday, January 22
Time: 5:30 p.m.
Place: Pierpont Commons
Contact:Lisa Payton <lpayton@umich.edu> 313.647.7151
Sponsor: College of Engineering, School of Music, School of Art and Design, and the School of Architecture and Urban Planning
By invitation only. An awards dinner in recognition of individuals among the North Campus student community
whose leadership and services exemplify the spirit of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr. Features Dr. Michael Dyson.
Film
Life at the Crossroads: Films on Being Black and Gay in America
Date: Thursday, January 22
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Place: Angell Hall Auditorium B
Contact:Gail Drakes <gdrakes@umich.edu> 313.332.4166
Sponsor: All Us
A screening of two experimental documentaries that address issues related to being both
Black and gay in the U.S. "Black Nations/Queer Nations?" chronicles a groundbreaking 1995
conference on Black gay identity, and "Vintage" looks at three African American families
through the eyes of lesbian and gay siblings. Features Shari Frilot.
Lecture
Loving the Least of These
Date: Thursday, January 22
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Place: TBA
Sponsor: InterVarsity Christian Fellowship
Contact: Emily Kniebes <ekniebes@umich.edu> 313.647.6857
Features Dr. Mildred Jefferson who will address the difficult spiritual, ethical
and social questions abortion raises in a multicultural society.
Presentation
Mumia Abu-Jamal: Political Prisoner
Date: Thursday, January 22
Time:7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Place:Michigan Union, Anderson Room A
Contact: Anne Kelterborn <annelk@umich.edu> 313.327.9504
Sponsors: Free Mumia Coalition/ Anti-Racist Action
Presentation on acclaimed journalist Mumia, currently on death row in Pennsylvania. We will demonstrate his innocence and
tie the case of Mumia to the larger issue of political repression in the United States.
Panel
It's Hard to Leave Home: Panel discussion on Refugee Issues
Date: Thursday, January 22
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Place: Michigan Union, Kuenzel Room
Contact: Abby Schlaff <aschlaff@umich.edu> 313.763.1869
Sponsor: Amnesty International
A panel discussion on issues facing refugees, including persecution, hunger, difficulty in
seeking asylum, and U.S. Asylum Law. Features Professor Niels Frenzon of UCLA;
Erin O'Brien-Grawford, former aid worker in African refugee camps; Yves Banda, a refugee
from Zaire and legal coordinator of Freedom House; and Jessica LaBumbard, legal coordinator of Freedom House, a Detroit home for asylum seekers.
Dialogue and Panel
My World, Your World: Shouldn't They Be the Same?
Date: Thursday, January 22
Time:8:00 p.m.to 9:30 p.m.
Place: Michigan Union, Pond Room
Contact: Albert Garcia <albertjr@umich.edu> 313.764.0708
Sponsors: LS&A Student Government
This roundtable discussion includes student government leaders from various colleges
as well as student leaders of multicultural groups to discuss the student government role
in creating and maintaining a diverse campus.
Friday, January 23
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Student Visit
Young Writers from the City: A Day at the Residential College-East Quad
Date: Friday, January 23
Time: 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Place: East Quad and Residential College classrooms and Library
Contact: Dr. Barbra S. Morris <barbra@umich.edu> 313.647.4524 or 313.647.4356
Sponsor: Residential College and East Quad
Students from Mackenzie High School in Detroit visit the Residential College for a
day of classroom visits, interactions with RC students and faculty, and a joint reading
in Benzinger Library of students from MHS creative writing
program and the RC writing program. The visit serves to encourage student to complete
high school and continue to postsecondary education.
Panel
Entrepreneurship: What is its Significance in the African American Community?
Date: Friday, January 23
Time: 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Place: School of Business, Room B1270
Contact: Keisha West <keswes@umich.edu> 313.764.3914
Sponsors: Ernst & Young LLP and the National Association of Black Accountants
The panel consists of local African American entrepreneurs who will share their insight
on running a business and the importance of self ownership to the African American
community.
Lecture
Cultural Issues in the Treatment of Latinos in a Psychiatric Setting
Date: Friday, January 23
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Place:East Hall, Room 4448
Contact: Alejandro Leguizamo <leguizam@umich.edu> 313.994.1162
Sponsors: Latino Student Psychological Association
Features Ana Margarita Cebollero, Ph.D. and Director, Latino Team, Children's
Hospital in Boston. The presentation will focus on the cultural issues pertaining to
addressing the mental health needs of the Latino/a community in a major metropolitan area.
Film
Sixth Annual MLK Film Series: Broken Treaty at Battle Mountain & To Protect Mother Earth (sequel)
Date: Friday, January 23
Time: 5:30 p.m.
Place: North Campus, Chrysler Center Auditorium, 2121 Bonisteel
Contact:Lisa Payton <lpayton@umich.edu> 313.647.7151
Sponsors: College of Engineering, School of Music, School of Art and Design, and the School of Architecture and Urban Planning
Free. Robert Redford narrates the dramatic story of Nevada's Western
Shoshone Indians' struggle to keep 24 million acres of land from being
taken from them by the federal government. The film bears
witness to the strength and determination of the people these two women
represent as well as providing a deep personal portrait of the
traditional Shoshone people. 1974, 1989
Lecture
Big Black: Lessons from Attica and Current Prisoner Struggles
Date: Friday, January 23
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Place:Hutchins Hall, Room 100
Contact: Corey Fielder <mim136@mim.org> 313.930.6452
Sponsors: Revolutionary Anti Imperialist League, Maoist Internationalist Movement
Features Frank Smith aka Big Black, former leader of 1971 Attica rebellion, will
speak on contemporary struggles for racial justice and social equality. His talk
will include lessons based on experience from advocating civil rights as a
community activist, paralegal and mental health counselor.
Lecture
Are We Not Human?
Date: Friday, January 23
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Place: TBA
Sponsors: InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Christian Medical and Dental Society,
Christian Legal Society, Christian Business Association, and the Graduate
Christian Fellowship of InterVarsity
Contact: Emily Kniebes <ekniebes@umich.edu> 313.647.6857
Features Dr. Mildred Jefferson who will urge us to open
our ears to the claims of the speechless, to reconsider our public
consignment of the unborn to a class unworthy of our common human rights.
Performance
MLK Variety Show
Date: Friday, January 23
Time: 9:00 p.m.
Place: Pierpont Commons, Leonardo's
Contact:Lisa Payton <lpayton@umich.edu> 313.647.7151
Sponsors: College of Engineering, School of Music, School of Art and Design, and the School of Architecture and Urban Planning
An unforgettable evening of song, dance, poetry, prose, movement, and
interpretation as students, staff, faculty and friends of the University of
Michigan gather to pay personal tribute to the enduring spirit of Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr. This variety show will present a mosaic of acts gathered on behalf
of the man whose passion would uplift and unite millions.
Saturday, January 24
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Workshop
Michigan Annual Campus Summit
Date: Saturday, January 24
Time: 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.; 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Place: Michigan Union, Anderson Room
Contact: Philip Randall <philipr@umich.edu> 313.764.1835
Sponsors: Campus Summit, Mortar Board, Markley Council, and the MLK Symposium Planning Committee
Campus Summit is a summit for students on campus in
order to create, foster, and encourage relationships among students who would not normally
meet. Student groups and leaders take these connections back to their organizations, and
implement them through joint programming. We hope these relationships continue when
students are serving as leaders on campus. Campus Summit begins in the
Anderson Room and continues with the Keynote Speaker in the Pendleton Room at 4:30 p.m. The
Keynote Speaker is NTanya Lee, Community Education
Coordinator for Ozone House Youth and Family Services.
Performance
Positive Leader And Young Effective Role models of the Year
Date: Saturday, January 24
Time: 8:00 p.m.
Place: Michigan Union Ballroom
Contact:Alena Green <alena@umich.edu> 313.973.0913
Sponsor: Crying Laughter Productions
Positive Leader and Young Effective Role models (P.L.A.Y.E.R.) will come together in unity for this
competition event. Black males will compete to show the most effective role model
according to the work of Dr. King, to maintain self esteem in the University
during the battle against affirmative action, community services, ideas, and suggestions
to make things better.
Sunday, January 25
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Film
Porgy and Bess: An American Voice
Date: Sunday, January 25
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Place: Michigan Theatre
Contact: Lee Katterman <leekatt@umich.edu> 313.647.9085 or view http://www.yoha.umich.edu
Sponsor: Office of the Vice President for Research and the Division of Research Development and Administration
A YoHA Arts of Citizenship Event. Public premiere of "Porgy and Bess: An American Voice," a
documentary that uses this musical masterpiece as a window onto American and African American
history. A discussion will follow involving James Standifer, the documentary project
director and University of Michigan professor of music, and others involved the performance history of "Porgy
and Bess" and in the documentary.
Monday, January 26
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Reception and Announcement
1998 Minority International Research Training (MIRT) Awards
Date: Monday, January 26
Time: 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Place: 300 N. Ingalls Building, 10th Floor, Room 1000
Contact: Kate Restrick <restrick@umich.edu> 313.764.2443
Sponsor: Center for Human Growth and Development
Monday, January 26
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Film
Sixth Annual MLK Film Series: The Wedding Banquet
Date: Friday, January 30
Time: 5:30 p.m.
Place: North Campus, Chrysler Center Auditorium, 2121 Bonisteel
Contact:Lisa Payton <lpayton@umich.edu> 313.647.7151
Sponsors: College of Engineering, School of Music, School of Art and Design, and the School of Architecture and Urban Planning
Free. A gay Taiwanese yuppie who lives with his
American lover tries to end his family's endless matchmaking attempts
by announcing he's engaged. His parents immediately fly in to meet the
bride, an illegal Chinese alien, in need of a green card. 1993
Friday, February 6
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Film
Sixth Annual MLK Film Series: Mi Familia
Date: Friday, February 6
Time: 5:30 p.m.
Place: North Campus, Chrysler Center Auditorium, 2121 Bonisteel
Contact:Lisa Payton <lpayton@umich.edu> 313.647.7151
Sponsors: College of Engineering, School of Music, School of Art and Design, and the School of Architecture and Urban Planning
Free. This film traces over three generations of an immigrant
family's trials, tribulations, tragedies and triumphs. Maria and Jose, the first
generation, come to Los Angeles, meet, marry, face deportation all in
the 1930's. 1995
Friday, February 13
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Film
Sixth Annual MLK Film Series: The Joy Luck Club
Date: Friday, February 13
Time: 5:30 p.m.
Place: North Campus, Chrysler Center Auditorium, 2121 Bonisteel
Contact:Lisa Payton <lpayton@umich.edu> 313.647.7151
Sponsors: Sponsor: College of Engineering, School of Music, School of Art and Design, and the School of Architecture and Urban Planning
Based on Amy Tan's 1989 best-selling novel, this film tells the
story of four women who were born in China and eventually came to America.
What is about to be forgotten are the origins of the women, the stories
of how they were born and grew up in a time and culture so very
different form the one they now inhabit. 1993
Friday, February 20
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Film
Sixth Annual MLK Film Series: My Left Foot
Date: Friday, February 20
Time: 5:30 p.m.
Place: North Campus, Chrysler Center Auditorium, 2121 Bonisteel
Contact:Lisa Payton <lpayton@umich.edu> 313.647.7151
Sponsor: College of Engineering, School of Music, School of Art and Design, and the School of Architecture and Urban Planning
Free. This film is the screenplay biography of handicapped Irish
writer-artist Christy Brown who was afflicted with cerebral palsy from
birth. Cristy Brown is a quadriplegic born to a large, poor
Irish family. Eventually, Christy matures into a cantankerous writer who uses his only functional
limb, his left foot, to write with. 1989
