The National Civil Rights Museum will mark the life and death of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., 53 years after his assassination in Memphis, with a special virtual remembrance Sunday evening.
The museum, which will be closed Sunday though guests are welcome to pay tribute to King in the courtyard of the building will go live at 5 p.m. Central time with a multi-faceted online event titled, Remembering MLK: The Man. The Movement. The Moment.
According to the programming notes, the broadcast will feature a conversation with the Rev. James Lawson, a key King ally and stalwart of nonviolent philosophy. NBC correspondent Tracie Potts will conduct the interview with Lawson.
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In honor of Women’s History Month, Westport Country Playhouse will host a virtual storytelling of original works written by female members of the community about women who changed history, on Tuesday, March 30, at 7 p.m. Registration is necessary to access the broadcast on the Playhouse’s YouTube channel (WestportPlayhouse). The event will be the second presentation in the theater’s “New Works/New Voices” series; the first was in celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in January.
“Phenomenal Women Inspire” will feature stories about the following five outstanding women, each representing different periods of history: Constance Baker Motley, born in New Haven in 1921 and the first African American woman to be named a federal court judge in 1966; Mary Freeman, born in Derby, CT, in 1815, and who, with her sister Eliza, developed, bought, and sold real estate in Bridgeport before women had the right to vote; Mary McLeod Bethun