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Reed College celebrates
Black History Month 2006
bell hooks
Lecture: “Talking Intersections: Class, Race,
Gender, Nationality, and Religion"
7 P.M. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2
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Feminist, social thinker, intellectual and author
hooks reflects on complex issues o f our time.
Michael Eric Dyson
Lecture: “Come Hell or High Water”
7 P.M. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17
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From his forthcom ing book, Dyson speaks on what
Hurricane Katrina revealed about race and poverty
in America.
“The Incredible Journey of Jazz”
Concert and Lecture
2 P.M. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2 0
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
KAUL AUDITORIUM
Co-sponsored by the Portland Jazz Festival, this program
presents the story o f jazz for middle-school children and
their parents.
Ethnic Heritage Ensemble
Concert
7 P.M. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
ELIOT HALL CHAPEL
This group o f acclaimed, rule-bending musicians fuses
traditional and popular African music in this avant garde
performance.
For more information, visit web.reed.edu/black_history_month/
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Taking the streets in a march for equal rights, Coretta Scott King joins her hus­
band, Martin Luther King Jr.
Life committed to
justice, peace
continued
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tomb. The King
Center is part of a
23-acre national
h isto ric
park
which includes his
birth home, and
which hosts over
one mi Ilion visitors
a year.
She dedicated
herself to provid­
ing local, national
and international
p ro g ram s that
lave trained tens
of thousands of
people in Dr.
King’s philosophy
and methods; she
guided the cre­
ation and housing
of the largest ar­
chives of docu­ Coretta Scott King and Bono, the lead man for the rock group U2,
ments from the join together to lead world humanitarian efforts.
C ivil
R ights
Movement; and, perhaps her ment and equal economic op­ USSR was redefining itself
greatest legacy after establish­ portunity, as Co-Chair of the Mrs. King was co-convene
ing The King Center itself.
Full Employment Action Coun­ o f the S o v ie t-A m e ric a i
Mrs. King spearheaded the cil.
W om en’s Summit in Wash
massive educational and lob­
In 1983, she brought to­ ington, DC.
bying campaign to establish gether more than 800 human
Always close to her family
Dr. King’s birthday as a na­ rights organizations to form in 1985 Mrs. King and three 01
tional holiday.
the Coalition of Conscience, her children were arrested a
Coretta Scott King has car­ sponsors of the 20th A nniver­ the South African embassy ir
ried the message of nonvio­ sary March on W ashington, Washington, DC, for protesting
lence and the dream of the until then the largest dem on­ against apartheid. And, in 1995
beloved community to almost stration in our nation’s capital. she turned over leadership ol
every corner of our nation and
In 1987, she helped lead a the Center to her son, Dextei
globe. She has led goodwill national M obilization Against Scott King, who served as
missions to many countries in F ear and In tim id a tio n in Chairman, President & CEO
Africa, Latin America, Europe Forsyth County, Georgia. In until January 2004. On that date,
and Asia. She has spoken at 1988, she re-convened the Mrs. King was named interim
many of history’s most mas­ Coalition o f Conscience for Chair and her eldest son Martin
sive peace and justice rallies. the 25th anniversary o f the Luther King, III assumed the
A life-long advocate of inter­ M arch on W ashington. In leadership position of President
racial coalitions, in 1974 Mrs. preparation for the Reagan- & CEO.
King formed a broad coalition Gorbachev talks, in 1988 she
A woman of wisdom, com ­
of over 100 religious, labor, busi­ served as head of the U.S. passion and vision, Coretta
ness, civil and women’s rights delegation of Women for a Scott King has tried to make
organizations dedicated to a Meaningful Summit in Athens, ours a better world and, in the
national policy of full employ- Greece; and in 1990, as the process, has made history.
Struggle for Justice
Echoed in King Funeral
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tributes at Ebenezer Baptist Church, where
Gladys Knight performed and television talk-
show host Oprah W infrey, former Atlanta
mayor and King lieutenant Andrew Young
and others shared their memories of King.
“For me. she embodied royalty. She was the
queen. ... You knew she was a force," Winfrey
told an audience of 1,700 at the musical celebra­
tion in King’s honor.
“She leaves us all a better America than the
America of her childhood," Winfrey said.
At a service Monday night, the Revs. Jesse
Jackson and Al Sharpton galvanized the crowd
with fiery speeches that blasted the government
and public figures for trying to make the King
legacy their own while doing nothing for world
peace or poor black Americans.
"We can’t let them take her from us and
reduce her to their trophy and not our freedom
fighter,” Jackson said.
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