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WKAR s Sophia Saliby speaks with Elaine Hardy of the Dr. Martin Luther King Commission of Mid-Michigan about its MLK Day celebration.
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic this year, the commission will be putting on its annual day of celebration as a televised program on WILX, rather than an in-person event.
WKAR’s Sophia Saliby spoke with the chair of the commission, Elaine Hardy, about the event.
Interview Highlights
On Why Dr. Bernice King Was Selected As This Year’s Featured Speaker
Any person on any King Commission would love to have the daughter of our iconic leader and our namesake. And because she is a civil rights and social justice advocate in her own right, we believe that her voice, at this time, should be amplified. I have said so, and I ve actually said this to Dr. King, when I spoke with her that I feel like her voice in this movement needs to be amplified. She has such a unique perspective as who I call the bridge between the two movements, the new civil
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Sounds Good will celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day by honoring the minister and activist s legacy with two special presentations from PRX on Monday, January 18th.
The Martin Luther King Jr. Day special programming on Monday, January 18th, is as follows:
11 am:
Constant Wonder: MLK Day Special
We all know of Martin Luther King Jr. s major contribution to the discourse about non-violence. Who planted the seeds of his thinking? It turns out that you can trace at least one strand of his intellectual development by way of Quakerism, back to one of the earliest American abolitionists. We ll learn about Anthony Benezet and also about an early freedom rider, Elizabeth Jennings.
There are several ways to celebrate the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in and around Racine. Events this year are taking place both in person and virtually.
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