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North Central celebrates the legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Every year, North Central College celebrates the life and legacy of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who spoke on campus in Pfeiffer Hall in The College has continued to honor King—one of the most influential people of the 20th century.
Below is a list of activities for designed to honor and remember Dr. King:
Chicago Sinfonietta
MLK Tribute Concert: Ask Your Mama
Sunday, January 14, 3 p.m.
Pfeiffer Hall
$62, $49, $10/students
This Grammy-award winning, multimedia jazz/symphonic masterpiece is inspired by the legendary work of Langston Hughes. Marking the 30th anniversary of the MLK Tribute concert, this impressive performance is amplified by a diverse cast including orchestra, opera, jazz vocals, spoken word, archival audio samples and video.
Annual Prayer Breakfast Speaker
David Johnson ’07
Monday, January 15, 7 a.m.
Dr. Myron Wentz Science Center, Judy G. Stevenson Ratio Hall (2nd Floor)
Free, RSVP to by Jan. 12
An award winning, internationally published photographer David Johnson ’07 will be the keynote speaker at the annual MLK Prayer Breakfast. Johnson’s work has appeared in award-winning global branding efforts, on the covers of magazines and in Times Square. In his keyno
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Martin Luther King Jr. movie: The latest from the What the Heck Took So Friggin' Long department
The news broke today that Steven Spielberg is producing a Martin Luther King Jr. biopic. Which is awesome, clearly. His was a life marked by incredible accomplishment — Nobel Prize, the Civil Rights movement, a march-based fitness program — that was cut short by his assassination at age There are lots of questions surrounding this project — who’ll star as King (I’m sure every Black actor of a certain age is tuning up his preacher voice), who’ll direct, when will we finally see it — but I’ve got just one: What the hell took so long?
I get that, apparently, the rights to King’s life have been tangled up in the family — King copyrighted all of his speeches; without which, a King film might’ve played like 30 Rock‘s Janis Joplin flick, Jackie Jormp-Jomp. But every year I’d see biopics like The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The World’s Fastest Indian, and A Mighty Heart — all fine, but ultimately marginal films — come down the pike and wonder, “Why is this man, who changed the face of America, not getting the same treatment?”
I’m not going to say there’s an undercurrent of racism at play — I’m also not going to say there isn’t — but people haggling over who contr
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