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Taylor University Pillars at Taylor University Martin Luther King Jr. Day Campus Events 1-16-2006 Bridging Yesterday’s Dream with Today’s Reality Taylor University Follow this and additional works at: https://pillars.taylor.edu/mlk Part of the Higher Education Commons, Race and Ethnicity Commons, and the United States History Commons Recommended Citation Taylor University, "Bridging Yesterday’s Dream with Today’s Reality" (2006). Martin Luther King Jr. Day. 36. https://pillars.taylor.edu/mlk/36 This Brochure is brought to you for free and open access by the Campus Events at Pillars at Taylor University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Martin Luther King Jr. Day by an authorized administrator of Pillars at Taylor University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ffBridging Yesterdayts Dream with Todayns Reality" Martin Luther Kingr Jr. DaY Taylor University January { 6 Welcome to the fourteenth annual celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day at Taylor University. As originally conceived by stu- dents, our observance unites the campus in a singular focus for a day of common learning. We have much to learn from our speakers and from each other as we faithfully explore Dr. King's Christian themes of racial reconciliation, justice, and community. It is our hope that we allfind ourselves blessed, challenged, and encouraged by the body of Christ as we participate in this year's Martin Luther King, Jr. Day activities. "For He himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has destroyed the bar-' rier, the dividing wall of hostility." Ephesians 2:14 Schedule Chapelwith Star Parker 1O AM Rediger Auditorium Workshop Session 1 1:30 PM Five Things Everyone Should Know About the Civil Rights Move- ment Michael Hammond Modelle Metcalf 002 Asleep to What?: Caring to be Aware Taylor Students Rupp 203-205 Workshop Session 2 3PM Art and the Beloved Community Tim Rollins Modelle-Metcalf 002 Jazz Music Workshop Marcus Belgrave Smith-Hermanson 148 lnteruiew with Star Parker Star Parker Mitchell Theatre Evening Goncert 8PM Marcus Belgrave Rediger Auditorium & the Louis Armstrong Tradition Star Parker, a former welfare mother, is the founder and president of CURE, the Coalition on Urban Renewal & Education, a non-profit organi- zation that provides a national voice of reason on issues of race and poverty in the media, inner city neighborhoods, and public policy. She gives regular testimony before the United States Con- gress, and is a national expert on major television and radio shows across the country. Currently, Star is a regular commentator on CNN, MSNBC, and FOX News. Tim Rollins is best known for his work with Kids of Survival (K.O.S.) in the South Bronx, NY. Tim started K.O.S. as an after school program that teaches students art through literature and by em- ploying highly creative methods of art-making. The group, named K.O.S. by the students themselves, soon gained international attention and has since been in hundreds of professionally curated shows. Tim and K.O.S. have created artwork that focuses on the sermons of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Michael Hammond is a Taylor University alumnus who was student body president in 1991-92 when TSO initiated the MLK Day holiday. He has worked on Capitol Hill and served as Director of Leader- ship Development at Taylor University and is cur- rently a Ph.D. candidate in History and a Doctoral Academy Fellow at the University of Arkansas. His research interests are the history of the civil rights movement and religion in North America. Marcus Belgrave began playing trumpet at age six, and at age 18 he began a collaboration with Ray Charles which lasted over a decade. During his distinguished career Mr. Belgrave has also en- joyed touring and playing with many of the most distinguished artists in American music, including Ella Fitzgerald, Max Roach, Charles Mingus, Sammy Davis, Jr., Tony Bennett, Aretha Franklin, Wynton Marsalis, McCoy Tyner, and Dizzy Gilles- pie. ttTni, will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with a new meaning, "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring." And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hamp- shire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania! Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado! Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of California! But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Moun- tain of Georgia! Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee! Let freedom ring from every hill and every molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.'.." Excerpted from Dr. Kng's speech delivered on the sfeps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1963. 4 cxr,&.