Credit Maddie Metzger, The Trail Blazer
The Black Lives Matter movement of 2020 put a new lens on Morehead State University’s celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. week.
The Eagle Diversity Education Center paid homage to King’s influence during the Civil Rights Movement through week-long festivities across campus. EDEC hoped to educate students about King’s work and impact on society.
“For me it’s always an opportunity to celebrate, acknowledge and recognize such an influential person in American history,” said Cory Clark, Assistant Director of EDEC
. “With everything that’s happened in society, it just reminds us of how much further we have to go but also some of the progress that we’ve made.”
The Wolf Tree Film Festival, showing on January 23, 2021 at 6:00pm ET, will showcase nine short films set in the Great Lakes region or by filmmakers who reside in or grew up in the Great Lakes region.
Hosted by the Franke Center for the Arts and Marshall’s Youngish Professionals Committee, the Wolf Tree film festival in past years has been held at Franke Center, an arts complex that is the proud home of world-class concerts, inspiring theater, and award-winning movies. The festival this year will be fully virtual and will include screenings of each selected film and an awards presentation.