MLK Celebration: Pulitzer Prize Winner Leonard Pitts Jr. to Speak Jan. 13

PULLMAN, Wash. — An address by Pulitzer Prize winning newspaper columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. will kick off the  2007 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Community Celebration.

The address is part of the 9 a.m. Latah County Human Rights Task Force Breakfast held Jan. 13. The breakfast is one of the celebration events being 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.

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 terrorist attacks.

Pitts will lead a forum for communication students, news media representatives and community members at 2:30 p.m. in the WSU Murrow School of Communication Addition, CAAD 21. This event is open to the public at no charge.

Other celebration activities include:

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 address, Kibbie Dome. For tickets information, call 885-7716.

For more information, visit www.wsu.edu/MLK and www.students.uidaho.edu/oma.