Greetings!
Our 29th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. March and Celebration is rapidly approaching, and we are standing in the need of your thoughts and prayers for great weather and a glitch-free celebration. Our hope is that the many months of planning and negotiating will culminate in an engaging six mile march and a fun five hour celebration.
This event is an important piece of a much larger year-long MLK365 strategy to focus the community on the issues and practices of fairness, equity and justice. The Celebration provides the community with a highly interactive opportunity to touch, teach and engage young people about civic engagement and character development. We hope that you will invite your friends and family to the Martin Luther King Jr. March and Celebration. LET THE COUNTDOWN BEGIN!
My father, marched from Selma to Montgomery.I have met Arun and Sunanda Gandhi, while they were here in the US in 1989. They were helping to carry the dream of M.Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.Thank you all who continue to keep the dream alive as our work is not done yet. Yes, we must be the change we want to see.Not easy at times, but possible. Blessings, and I hope to be walking with you soon!Margaret gallica_4@hotmail.com
ReplyDeleteFamily & Community Services Inc and the Americorps POWERcorps Rcovery members of Portage County,Ohio are hosting DREAM BIG! MLK Day of Service January 18,2010 for our area youth 5-12. We'll have different stations to visit as well as puzzles,games,arts and crafts.The Dietrich Youth Center is located at 705 Oakwood St. Ravenna,Oh. The day will go from 10-4 with the main activity starting at 11.This activity is to remember and promote the legacy of MLK through a day of service to the community.
ReplyDeleteI love Dr. King's message and vision for not an "equal" society, but instead a colorblind one! That is how we have raised our five children, not to judge people by the color of their skin but by the content of their character, good or bad.
ReplyDeleteI was so thankful that we were able to find not only Dr. King's "I have a dream" speech on You Tube, but also some of his other speeches, and news interviews of him and his detractors such as Malcomb X. Those combined with text from all of his speeches and letters gave our family a clear view of how great a visionary Dr. King truly was.
It is sad that many people have corrupted Dr. King's message and instead want people judged by "who they are and what they represent" rather than the choices they make to have good character, or bad. The ads for this site on Channels 3 and 58 have done that very thing. What a shame they demean this wonderful man and his message in this way.