Monday, January 17, 2000
Special events for Martin Luther King Day
• Today's prayer service at Fountain Square begins at 11:15 a.m. It will be followed by a march to Music Hall for a noon memorial program — “Our Youth, Our Future, Our Responsibility” — in which Sharon Draper, an author and literature teacher at Walnut Hills High School, will be the keynote speaker.
• The Arts Consortium of Cincinnati's “Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Breakfast” at 8 a.m. today at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, downtown. The keynote speaker is Ayinda Jean-Baptiste, a Harvard University freshman who spoke at the Million Man March as a 14-year-old.
• The Northern Kentucky Community Center's Martin Luther King Celebration, from 2-6 today, includes children's activities, education videos, an African dance group and a performance by the Northern Kentucky Brotherhood singers. A candlelight march begins at 6 p.m., followed by a program at the center.
• Cinergy Foundation program, “Live the Dream: Our Declaration of Unity,” is 7 p.m. today at Cornerstone United Methodist Church, 7600 Princeton-Glendale Road, West Chester. Keynote speakers: the Rev. John Stevenson and the Rev. Garry Shirk of Cornerstone.
Other area celebrations include:
• The Cincinnati Museum Center's African Culture Fest today offers A Taste of Africa and lessons on traditional African tribal drums.
• The Miami University Center for Black Culture and Learning's viewing of the documentary Eyes on the Prize, noon-1:30 p.m. today on the Oxford campus. A different installment of the documentary will be shown each day at noon, through Jan. 21.
• Miami University's community service, 3:30 p.m. today at the Kumler Chapel on the Oxford campus. Bishop H. Eugene Bellinger of Mount Sinai Holy Temple, 1140 S. Front St., Columbus, Ohio, will be guest speaker.
• Miami University's award reception 6 p.m. today at the Booker T. Washington Community Center near the Hamilton campus. The reception recognizes area high school students who are winners of MLK Committee scholarships, as well as community members who have performed distinguished service.
• Northern Kentucky University hosts the Rev. C.T. Vivian, who will speak on “Martin Luther King Jr.: A 21st Century Man” 12:15 p.m. Tuesday at Greaves Concert Hall, Louis B. Nunn Drive, Highland Heights.
• Miami University's Remembrance and Reflections luncheon, noon Wednesday at the Wilks Conference Center on the Hamilton campus. The luncheon is free, but reservations required. 785-3024.
• The College of Mount St. Joseph will have a video presentation at noon Thursday inside the Office of Multicultural Development, 5701 Delhi Road, Delhi Township.
• Miami University Coffeehouse Showcase, 7 p.m. Thursday at Hall Auditorium on the Oxford campus. Students will offer poetry readings and performances of music and dance.
• Miami University hosts Samuel Betances, 1 p.m. Friday at Hall Auditorium on the Oxford campus. Mr. Betances, a professor emeritus at Northeastern Illinois University, will deliver a speech titled “The Racial Legacies and Learning II: How to Talk About Race.”
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