UGA will celebrate the legacy of the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. with activities, screenings and discussions held in conjunction with the King holiday on Jan. 18.
King’s 1963 “I Have A Dream” speech will be shown and discussed at noon Jan. 12 in Room G23 of Aderhold Hall as part of the College of Education’s Dean’s Council on Diversity series.
Talmadge Guy and Laura Bierema, faculty members in lifelong education, administration and policy, will lead a discussion on the speech and race relations in the 21st century. Part of the discussion will focus on King’s prediction that within a generation a black man would be elected president of the U.S. The moderators will ask if that dream has been fulfilled, is being fulfilled or is no longer possible.
On Jan. 15, Thelma Wyatt Cummings Moore, retired Fulton County superior court judge, will speak on “The Power of the Dream. . . Where Do We Go from Here?” at the Freedom Breakfast at 7:30 a.m. in the Tate Student Center Grand Hall.
Offices at the university will be closed Jan. 18 in observance of the holiday.
For volunteers who would like to use the holiday as a day of service, an online sign up for projects around Athens can be found at www.AthensMLKDay.org.
Last year, more than 800 volunteers served at 25 project sites. Sign-up for this year’s event runs through Jan. 15, and projects include cemetery clean ups, work at local schools and with community agencies including BikeAthens, Keep Athens Beautiful, ACC Greenway, Habitat for Humanity and Advantage Behavioral Health Systems.
The Black Affairs Council’s annual Unity Ball will be held Jan. 23 at 7 p.m. in the Tate Student Center Grand Hall. Tickets are $6 each or $10 for two.
On Jan. 28, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Douglas Blackmon will lecture on campus. The time and location is yet to be announced.
The Russell Library for Political Research and Studies is currently hosting two complementary exhibits on school desegregation, Measuring Deliberate Speed: Georgians Face School Desegregation and With All Deliberate Speed: The A.P. In Little Rock, a traveling exhibit of the Associated Press Corporate Archives. On display until Feb. 26, the exhibit is open weekdays from 8:30 a.m.– 4:30 p.m. with special Sunday hours Jan. 24 from 1–5 p.m.
On Jan. 15 at 3 p.m. the Russell Library hosts an informal forum, “The New Challenges of American Immigration: What Should We Do?”
On. Jan. 19 at 6 p.m. the Russell Library will hold a discussion of “Racial and Ethnic Tensions: What Should We Do?” Melissa Shivers, graduate student, and Jill Severn, director of the Russell Forum for Civic Life in Georgia, will moderate the discussion. Refreshments will be served.
A screening of a recent Albany civil rights discussion will be held Jan. 20 at noon in the Russell Library.
A film about public education will be shown Jan. 22 at noon in the Russell Library. A film about school integration, Hoxie: The First Stand, will be screened and discussed Jan. 29 at noon in the Russell Library. Both films and are held in conjunction with the library’s exhibits. The library will continue to have screenings and discussions after the holiday has passed.
