An address by Pulitzer Prize winning newspaper columnist Leonard Pitts, Jr. kicks off the 2007 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Celebration in Pullman and Moscow. The celebration concludes with a speech by Martin Luther King III.
Pitts’ address is part of the 9 a.m. Jan. 13 Latah County Human Rights Task Force Breakfast, among celebration events coordinated by Washington State University, University of Idaho, and the cities of Pullman and Moscow. The breakfast site is Moscow Junior High School. Tickets, at $6 each, are for sale at Book People in Moscow and, if not sold out, also at the door.
King III will speak at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 5, in the UI Kibbie Dome in Moscow. He is one of four children of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King. A former Southern Christian Leadership Conference president, he is CEO/president of the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta. For ticket info, call UI Multicultural Affairs at 885-7716.
Pitts will lead a forum for communication students, news media representative and community members at 2:30 p.m. in the WSU Murrow School of Communication Addition, CAAD 21. It is open to the public at no charge.
Pitts’ Miami Herald column appears in newspapers across the nation through syndication. Many columns are devoted to politics and culture. He won the 2004 Pulitzer for commentary for his column on the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorism attacks.
Celebration activities include:
Jan. 13: 9 a.m., Pulitzer Prize winner Leonard Pitts, Jr. will speak.
Jan. 14: Noon-6 p.m., annual food drive, Pullman’s Safeway.
Jan. 15: 10 a.m., Freedom Bus Ride, leaves from the bus stop outside WSU’s Smith Center for Undergraduate Education.
11 a.m., Shandra L. Terry’s presentation, “The Legacy is Alive in Me!,” Smith Center second floor.
Noon-1:30 p.m., Taste of Culture luncheon, Smith Center second floor.
1:30-3:30 p.m., Freedom School educational program for youth, Smith Center second floor.
Feb. 5: 7 p.m. Martin Luther King III will speak at the Kibbie Dome at the University of Idaho.
For more information, visit www.wsu.edu/MLK and www.students.uidaho.edu/oma.
