'Lest We Forget': Birmingham Groups Plan to Remember Words, Life of Martin Luther King
Roeper will lead a Martin Luther King, Jr. Day ceremony and candlelight walk at its lower school campus while Wayne State's Dr. Silas Norman will speak at The Community House Monday.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is Monday and in Birmingham, community groups are preparing for ways to remember, give back and reflect. Beginning at 8 a.m. Monday, The Community House will host its 21st annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration, a breakfast sponsored by Birmingham's Race Relations & Diversity Task Force. Themed "Lest We Forget," this year's event will feature a speech from Dr. Silas Norman, Jr. assistant professor of internal medicine and the associate dean for Admissions, Diversity and Inclusion at the Wayne State University School of Medicine. Born and raised in Georgia, Norman began his formal involvement in the civil rights movement while at Paine College in the early 1960's. As a student at the University of Wisconsin, …
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