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B
B
B
Good
afternoon
and
welcome
my
name
is
Jason
Campbell,
Foster
and
I
am
the
interim
associate
Provost
and
dean
of
students
here
at
North,
Boston
University
excuse
me.
Oh
I
mean
on
behalf
of
President
Robert
Brown
and
Provost
Gene
Morrison.
It
is
my
pleasure
to
welcome
all
of
you
to
the
annual
celebration
of
the
lives
and
Legacies
of
Martin
Luther
King
Jr
and
Coretta
Scott
King
on
this
very
important
day:
Monday
January
16th
in
the
year
of
2023
Martin
Luther
King
Jr
day.
B
This
is
a
national
holiday
to
honor
Dr
King's
Legacy
celebrate
his
teachings
and
continue
to
remember
the
importance
they
still
hold.
Today
we
are
gathering
back
in
person
this
year
for
the
first
time
since
2020,
alongside
our
partners
at
the
city
of
Boston
and
the
New
England
Conservatory
I
want
to
thank
mayor,
Michelle
Wu
for
being
here
today
and
for
continuing
the
tradition,
Boston
University
and
the
City
of
Boston
has
cherished
over
the
decades.
B
We
have
also
here
to
honor
the
welcomed
elected
officials
with
the
city
of
Boston
members
of
our
age,
strong
community
and
to
all
of
those
who
have
joined
us
in
years.
Past
I
want
to
thank
the
New
England
conservatory's
president
Dr
Andrea
Kalin
for
her
partnership.
As
several
years
ago,
the
university
looked
to
expand
the
celebration
to
honor
Coretta
Scott
King,
who
met
Martin,
Luther
King
Jr,
while
doing
a
fellowship
at
NEC.
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B
B
The
theme
of
this
year's
King
Day
celebration
is
a
new
sense
of
direction.
Titled
after
one
of
Dr
King's
last
speeches
before
his
death,
Dr
King's
a
new
sense
of
direction
served
as
his
assessment
of
the
Civil
Rights
Movement
showcased,
his
keen
understanding
of
younger
generations
and
communicated
his
strategic
vision
for
the
future
of
the
movement
in
2023.
His
words
still
serve
as
a
relevant
call
to
action.
While
we
have
made
progress
in
notable
ways,
the
fight
for
racial
Urban
and
economic
Justice
continues
to
be
as
germane
as
it
was
55
years
ago.
B
As
a
university,
we
believe
in
the
power
and
capacity
of
people
to
represent
and
stand
for
change
as
Dr
King
did
and
we'll
use
this
opportunity
to
reflect
on
his
legacy
and
Inspire
us
to
be
active
and
engage
participants
in
the
Quest
for
a
more
Equitable
present
and
future
I.
Now
have
the
pleasure
of
introducing
our
first
musical
selection,
we'll
hear
a
piece
titled,
er001.1,
B,
composed
and
performed
by
Lemuel
Mark,
accompanied
by
William
mabuza
on
the
double
bass.
Both
are
students
at
the
New
England
Conservatory.
Please
join
me
in
welcoming
them.
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
B
Thank
you
for
sharing
that
remarkable
piece
with
us.
It
is
my
pleasure
to
welcome
Andrea
Taylor
as
our
next
speaker.
Andrea
is
the
senior
diversity
officer
here
at
Boston
University.
In
this
role
she
chairs
the
University's
anti-racism
working
group
and
its
Community
safety.
Advisory
Group
Andrea
connects
and
supports
a
range
of
diversity,
equity
and
inclusion
activities
across
bu's
campuses,
including
those
being
undertaken
by
the
Board
of
Trustees
committee
on
diversity,
equity
and
inclusion,
and
the
University's
individual
schools
and
colleges.
D
As
you've
heard,
my
name
is
Andrea
Taylor
and
I
am
the
senior
diversity
officer
at
Boston.
University
today
marks
the
37th
annual
celebration
of
Dr
Martin
Luther
King
Jr
holiday,
and
this
year's
commemoration
is
also
a
celebration
of
the
Embrace
sculpture
that
was
recently
installed
in
the
Boston
Commons
honoring
Dr
King
and
his
wife
Coretta
in
the
city,
where
the
two
civil
rights
leaders
began
their
life
together
on
behalf
of
the
Boston
University
Community.
We
are
pleased
to
join
in
this
special
celebration
of
his
leadership
and
Legacy.
D
D
Parenthetically
I
was
there
at
the
March
on
Washington
in
1963
as
a
teenager
and
I
wonder
if
there's
anyone
else
in
this
room
who
may
have
been
at
that
event.
I
see
here
here
is
anyone
else
here,
so
there
are
still
people
alive
and
well
and
Witnesses
and
sadly
we're
still
working
on
the
same
issues
all
these
years
later.
So
we
need
to
keep
at
it
and
keep
going
and
try
to
move
forward.
D
I
was
also
accompanied,
I
might
add
by
two
other
bu
alums
and
my
mother,
who
is
an
Alum
of
the
college
of
fine
arts
in
the
40s
and
my
uncle,
who
is
a
lawyer
with
two
law
degrees
in
the
30s
who
organized
our
trip
from
Charleston
West
Virginia
to
the
March.
So
it's
an
indelible
memory
for
me
and
for
many
of
you
as
well.
D
We
are
honored
and
humbled
to
continue
celebrating
his
legacy.
His
message
and
the
work
he
began
are
still
necessary
and
relevant,
not
only
in
this
country
but
around
the
world,
and
it
is
now
my
distinct
privilege
to
introduce
our
next
speaker,
mayor,
Michelle
Wu,
who
we're
delighted
to
welcome
back
to
our
campus
mayor.
D
Wu
is
the
first
woman
and
the
first
person
of
color
to
serve
as
mayor
of
the
city
of
Boston
she's,
the
daughter
of
immigrants,
a
Boston
Public,
School's
Mom,
an
MBTA
Commuter,
and
a
fierce
believer
that
we
can
solve
our
deepest
challenges
through
building
Community.
As
mayor
Michelle
Wu
is
working
in
coalition
to
deliver
bold
systemic
change
and
make
Boston
a
city
for
everyone.
Mayor
Wu
has
been
a
voice
for
accessibility,
transparency
and
Community
engagement
in
City
leadership.
D
She
first
was
elected
to
the
Boston
city
council,
at
the
age
of
28,
in
2013
and
she's,
the
first
Asian-American
woman
to
serve
on
the
council
by
her
as
the
council
president
selected
by
her
colleagues
in
a
unanimous
vote
mayor
Wu
graduated
from
Harvard
College
and
Harvard
Law
School,
and
she
is
fluent
in
Mandarin
and
Spanish.
She
lives
in
Roslindale
with
her
husband
Connor
and
his
her
two
sons,
Blaze
and
Cass.
It
is
my
privilege
to
welcome
warmly
Boston's
their
woo.
E
E
This
is
truly
a
joy
for
the
city
of
Boston
to
have
so
many
deep,
deeply
rooted
Partnerships
that
help
shape.
What's
ahead
for
our
residents
and
I
know
that
several
of
our
departments
in
particular,
have
really
been
part
of
today's
event.
I
want
to
thank
and
recognize
our
age
strong,
commissioner,
commissioner,
Emily
Shea.
Thank
you
for
all
that
you
do
day
in
and
day
out
for
the
city
of
Boston.
E
She's
sitting
right
next
to
our
chief
of
housing,
Sheila
Dillon,
for
whom
there
is
never
an
issue
too
small
or
too
big,
and
we
both
share
an
urgency
in
that
the
issue
of
our
day
in
in
our
city
in
terms
of
equity
and
fairness
and
who
has
a
shot,
is
centered
in
the
question
of
who
can
afford
to
live
here
and
who
can
thrive
in
in
that
housing.
We're
also
joined
by
our
chief
of
Economic,
Opportunity
and
inclusion.
E
E
Someone
mercifully
made
it
so
that
I
did
not
have
to
follow
our
Poet
Laureate
for
the
city
of
Boston,
Porsche
Loyola,
who
is
truly
the
embodiment
of
the
voice
and
the
soul
of
our
city
as
we
reach
for
our
greatest
possibility.
So
I
look
forward
to
be
sitting
right
there
when
you're
speaking
and
not
having
to
worry
about
what
I'm
going
to
say.
Next.
E
Just
last
week,
many
of
us
watched
as
I
think
it'll
flash
up
soon.
This
beautiful
powerful
new
monument
Embrace
Boston
was
unveiled
it's
a
sculpture
that
embodies
the
love
that
the
Reverend
Dr
Martin
Luther,
King,
Jr
and
Miss
Coretta,
Scott
King
shared
and
the
role
that
this
city
had
to
play
in
that
important
connection
and
relationship,
and
in
so
many
that
have
given
birth
to
the
direction
of
this
country.
E
We
talked
at
that
event,
much
as
the
Kings
did,
of
the
importance
of
love,
compassion
and
understanding
the
urgency
to
keep
that
going
today,
but
also
about
how
their
greatest
impact
and
ours
comes.
When
we
work
together
when
they
leaned
on
each
other
and
refined
their
strategies,
their
philosophies,
their
approach
to
this
work
when
their
love
were
able
to
surround
and
embrace
and
Empower.
So
many
others
working
alongside
this
was
truly
a
collaboration
that
actually
the
world
so
narrowly
missed
out
on.
If
not
for
some
of
the
institutions
represented
here
today.
E
I
don't
know
later
in
her
life
if
she
realized
and
if
her
descendants
are,
are
fully
realizing.
The
mark
that
that
one
single
connection
that
her
act
of
bringing
people
together
in
love
made
on
the
direction
of
our
history,
Mary
brought
these
two
together
here
in
Boston
and
all
of
us
across
the
city
are
committed
to
this
day
to
ushering
in
the
world
that
the
Kings
demanded
and
called
for
a
world
rooted
in
community
filled
with
people
dedicated
to
maintaining
and
embracing
that
community.
E
They
also,
we
also
see
it
in
our
city
in
the
connections
that
we
can
forge
over
the
fierce
Bond
and
loyalty
that
we
all
have
to
being
bostonians
a
debate
about
our
sports
teams
on
the
bus
or,
in
my
case,
trying
to
talk
to
someone
on
the
tee
and
not
having
anyone
reciprocate,
because
it
is
not
considered
a
space
where
you're
supposed
to
have
pleasant
conversation,
but
midwesterner
at
heart.
I
will
continue
to
try
and
then
the
young
people
all
across
our
city
who
continue
to
lead
the
way
in
his
remarks.
E
In
that
speech,
a
new
sense
of
direction,
Dr
King
celebrated
the
Youth
of
his
time.
The
folks
that
we
today
might
call
our
elders,
he
said
that
these
young
people
were
in
spiritual
ferment.
He
spoke
of
the
urgency
of
bringing
them
together
whether
they
were
Stout
radicals
or
already
aligned
with
principles
of
love
and
non-violence.
E
He
spoke
of
the
need
to
quote:
welcome
the
work
and
insights
of
these
young
people
from
the
pacifists
to
the
radicals
to
help
the
movement
and
its
core
philosophies
evolve
and
grow
in
some
ways.
Today,
our
young
people
are
raised
in
a
similar
climate
of
urgency,
struggle
and
awareness.
The
fights
for
racial
Justice
and
economic
Justice
remain
as
urgent
as
ever
and
today
we
are
open
and
unabashed
about
the
fights
for
gender
and
queer
Justice,
climate
Justice
and
reproductive
Justice.
E
These
are
all
raging
around
us
in
some
ways
it
can
feel
daunting,
like
we
haven't,
made
enough
progress
that
there's
so
much
to
do
day
by
day,
but
we
know
that
progress
is
not
linear
and
that
it
takes
compassion,
patience,
love
and
perseverance
to
achieve
and
persevere
in
that
progress
in
a
new
sense
of
direction.
Dr
King
compared
the
back
and
forth
of
struggle
and
progress
to
a
plane
trip.
E
We
are
marking
six
decades
since
the
March
on
Washington,
and
sometimes
it's
said
that
history
can
be
Cycles
when
you
turn
on
the
TV
today,
when
you
listen
to
the
news,
there's
an
overwhelming
feeling
that
we
have
so
much
in
front
of
us.
The
headwinds
are
are
quite
stiff,
but
I
like
to
remember
that
in
this
city
we
have
proven
our
medal.
When
we've
been
here
before
the
Embrace
Memorial
The
Living
Legends
the
names
that
are
on
some
of
our
most
important
Community
spaces,
Thelma
Burns
Melania
cast
Boulevard.
E
That
is
how
we
tap
into
our
Reserves
to
do
more
and
to
do
so
right
now
and
so
I
ask
for
everyone
in
this
room
and
all
across
our
city,
for
your
continued
partnership,
for
your
continued
compassion
for
your
continued
love,
as
we
really
strive
to
show
that
more
is
possible
in
this
moment
and
that
at
the
city
level,
Boston
can
do
it
better.
Boston
can
do
it
differently
and
Boston
can
truly
be
a
city
for
everyone.
Thank
you
so
much
thank
you
for
celebrating
with
us
today.
B
Thank
you
Mary
Wu,
for
joining
us
today.
It
is
my
honor
to
welcome
the
city
of
Boston's
Poet
Laureate
to
the
stage
Portia
olaiola
a
Jamaica
Plain
resident
Porsche
is
the
artistic
director
at
Mass
leap,
a
literary
non-profit
organization
in
Massachusetts
serving
youth
artists.
She
has
also
co-founded
the
house
slam
a
poetry
slam
Venue
at
the
Haley
House
Bakery
Cafe
in
Roxbury
that
offers
a
free
poetry,
slam
and
Open
Mic
events
twice
a
month.
Porsche
is
the
2014
individual,
World
poetry,
slam
champion
and
the
2015
National
poetry
slam
champion
in
2018.
B
F
Good
afternoon,
folks,
how
are
y'all
good
I'm
so
excited
to
be
here
so
humbled
to
be
here
and
thinking
and
honoring.
The
memory
of
the
Reverend
Dr
Martin
Luther
King
Jr
oftentimes
I,
like
to
think
of
Dr
King
as
an
afrofuturist
right,
Adrian,
Marie
Brown,
says
all
organizing
is
science
fiction
right
and
I.
Think
about
I
have
a
dream
right
and
the
idea
that
all
change
or
implementation
of
change
starts
with
a
dream.
So
to
speak.
Right
and
then
I've
been
thinking
about
this.
F
More
specifically,
I
was
thinking
about
Dr
King
when
he
was
in
the
civil
rights
movement
and,
more
specifically
in
the
Birmingham
jails,
and
how,
during
the
Civil
Rights
Movement
folks
tried
to
use
the
jail
systems
to
gel
the
movement.
If
you
will,
and
a
lot
of
adults
were
being
thrown
into
jails,
which
kind
of
halted
the
movement
a
bit
and
one
of
the
leaders
had
the
idea
that
maybe
we
should
use
young
people
or
children
or
take
on
a
new
sense
of
direction.
F
F
A
high
pressure
water
hose
can
take
the
head
clean
off
on
the
curb
a
pair
of
tinted
glasses,
small
enough
to
dress
a
toy
in
the
streets
middle,
a
pigtail,
wrapped
and
still
fastened,
with
barrette
Sky
colored
uniform
each
with
an
arm
calling
to
a
friend
and
the
other
lamb
and
the
leaping
throat
of
a
canine.
The
teens
skip
school
to
Crusade
songs,
shrieking,
like
squashed,
berries,
press,
skirts,
cadeting
knees,
patent,
leather,
Sunday,
shoes,
glinting
from
the
fire
holes
and
the
bodies
leaking
grief
to
Shield
against
fatal,
go
feed
him
huddle.
F
The
black
of
the
pavement
muzzle
the
face
to
the
red
brick
of
a
storefront
spines
sprayed
and
pinned
like
a
crucifixion
righteous.
The
youngest,
though,
could
not
ground
themselves
with
their
own
child
weights.
Lighting
them,
like
feathers,
see
it
from
the
window:
porcelain,
hoofed,
Melancholy,
Waters,
Rising
them
up.
Flapping
and
Grimace
jetted
black
birds,
grinning
little
ebony,
figurines,
soaring
the
sea
yali,
my
God,
the
children.
Did
you
see
them
salt
blood
they
took
flight.
B
Thank
you
Portia.
We
now
welcome
Boston
University's
interim
director
of
The
Howard
Thurman
Center
for
common
ground
Nick
Bates
to
the
stage
Nick
is
an
interpreter
of
Howard
Thurman,
using
life
work
and
philosophy
as
a
framework
to
engage
initiatives
on
equality
and
inclusion.
He
has
committed
himself
to
thoroughly
reading
Thurman
and
finding
ways
to
assist
others
with
developing
a
relationship
to
the
work
of
Howard
and
Sue
Bailey
Thurman
Nick
is
a
career
educator
working
at
colleges
and
universities
as
an
administrator
in
diversity,
equity
and
inclusion,
as
well
as
holding
multiple
teaching
roles
during
his
tenure.
G
H
G
Name
she
said
your
full
name
is
Nicholas
Bates
and
so
for
the
purpose
of
this
today,
I
will
be
Nicholas
Bates,
because
I
don't
want
to
get
in
trouble.
Y'all
I,
really
don't.
In
our
committee
meetings.
We
pushed
for
theme
that
honored
the
radical
King
there's
often
this
tendency
to
sanitize
Martin
Luther
King
Jr
to
only
specific
moments
in
history
as
if
he
didn't
evolve
as
he
as
if
he
didn't
change
his
mind.
G
So
often
you
hear
people
quote
from
the
I
Have
a
Dream
speech,
and
they
they
talk
often
about
the
content
of
people's
character
and,
while
those
are
great
words
by
Martin
Luther
King,
he
had
other
things
to
say
so.
Today's
theme
a
sense
of
a
new
Direction
honors
last
year's
theme,
Where
Do,
We,
Go,
From,
Here
chaos
or
Community.
It
speaks
at
length
about
the
things
impacting
Blue
Collar
families
and
working
class
families,
which
we
felt
is
important
to
people
in
this
room,
but
also
the
city
of
Boston.
G
It
speaks
intentionally
about
the
importance
of
challenging
morally
corrupt
governments
that
have
continued
to
underserve
minoritized
communities
and
disenfranchise
them.
It
paints
a
picture
about
how
urban
violence
about
poverty
and
other
systemic
failures
in
our
communities
have
decimated
our
communities
and
prevented
the
progress
for
all.
Additionally,
it
acknowledges
King
where
he
was
in
that
moment,
he
was
coming
off
what
he
would
consider
some
victories
in
Birmingham
Alabama
in
the
South
as
well,
and
emerging
into
learning
and
engaging
Northern
campaigns
in
cities
like
Chicago
and
Cleveland
as
well.
G
So
we
thought
it
was
important
to
make
sure
we
shared
that
sentiment
today
with
you
all
in
this
MLK
Day
celebration
and
lastly,
I
am
going
to
talk
about
thermalade
and
I'm,
so
excited
to
talk
about
one
of
Martin,
Luther
King's
teacher
teachers.
However,
I'll
end
with
this
quote
from
a
sense
of
New
Direction,
which
is
one
of
my
favorites
for
the
evils
of
racism,
poverty
and
militarism
to
die.
A
new
set
of
values
must
be
born.
Our
economy
must
become
more
person-centered
than
property
and
profit
centered.
B
Next,
it
is
my
pleasure
to
introduce
to
you
Kiara
lamontas
Kiera
is
a
member
of
Boston
University's
class
of
2023
in
the
College
of
Arts
and
Sciences.
She
is
also
the
president
of
the
Iota
chapter
of
Delta
Sigma
Theta
sorority
Incorporated.
She
graduated
from
high
school
from
the
John
D
O'brien
School
of
mathematics
and
science
in
Roxbury.
Please
give
me
a
war.
Please
join
me
in
giving
a
warm
welcome
to
Chiara.
I
I
Tell
them
not
to
mention
where
I
went
to
school
I'd
like
somebody
to
mention
that
day
that
Martin
Luther
King
Jr
tried
to
give
his
life
serving
others
I'd
like
for
somebody
to
say
that
Martin
Luther
King
Jr
tried
to
love.
Somebody
I
want
you
to
say
that
day
that
I
try
to
be
right
on
the
war
question
I
want
you
to
be
able
to
say
that
day
that
I
did
try
to
feed
the
hungry
and
I.
I
I
B
It
is
my
pleasure
to
welcome
New
England
Conservatory
president
Dr
Andrea
Kalin
to
our
program.
Dr
Kalin,
New,
England,
Conservatory,
17th
and
first
female
president
began
her
tenure
in
January,
2019.,
Dr,
kalin's,
deep
commitment
to
musical
Excellence
her
strong
relationship
with
faculty
and
her
profound
sense
of
responsibility
for
music
education
are
Hallmarks
to
her
exemplary
leadership.
B
Dr
Kailyn
is
fundamentally
committed
to
advancing
the
place
of
music
in
the
world
and
to
strengthening
connections
among
composers,
performers
and
audiences,
a
trained,
musicologist
and
pianist.
She
holds
a
PhD
in
musicology
from
the
Eastman
School
of
Music,
where
her
research
centered
on
20th
century
American
Music.
She
serves
On,
The,
Board
of
Trustees
of
WGBH,
the
board
of
directors
of
the
league
of
American
orchestras
and
chairs
the
pro
Arts
Consortium.
Please
join
me
in
giving
a
warm
welcome
to
president
Kalin.
J
J
J
J
When
our
country
tried
to
silence
her.
She
used
her
voice
to
change
our
country.
On
this
day.
We're
reminded
that
the
that
the
work
we're
reminded
of
the
work
that
remains
and
our
responsibility
to
continue
it
in
his
speech,
a
new
sense
of
direction,
Dr
King
said:
let
us
be
those
creative
dissenters
who
will
call
our
nation
to
a
higher
Destiny
to
a
new
plateau
of
compassion
to
a
more
noble
expression
of
humaneness.
J
Recently,
at
NEC
we
made
a
commitment
to
increase
Equitable
access
to
music
education
for
children
in
Boston,
thanks
to
Mayor
Wu's
partnership
and
the
generosity
of
an
anonymous
donor.
More
children
in
Boston
will
have
the
opportunity
to
engage
with
music
from
their
earliest
years.
We
want
every
child
to
be
able
to
use
their
voice
in
song
and
in
life,
just
as
Coretta
Scott
King
did
in
her
2004
commencement
commencement
speech
at,
and
you
see
she
reminded
us.
J
B
Next,
it
is
my
pleasure
to
introduce
Gloria
umarudarco
to
the
stage.
Gloria
is
a
member
of
the
Boston
University's
College
of
Arts
and
Sciences
class
of
2024
serves
as
a
student
ambassador
for
the
Howard
Thurman
Center
for
common
ground
and
was
a
recipient
of
the
Menino
Fellowship
in
2021-2022.
Gloria.
K
K
As
a
first
generation
college
student
William
started
his
educational
Journey
at
a
community
college
and
has
never
forgotten
the
professors
there
who
inspired
and
influenced
him.
He
would
go
on
to
receive
his
ba
in
communication
studies
and
psychology
from
Upper
Iowa
University,
his
ma
in
communication
studies
from
the
University
of
Northern
Iowa
and
his
PhD
in
communication
studies
from
Southern
Illinois
University
at
Carbondale,
where
his
research
combined
studies
in
critical
race,
Theory
and
masculinity
studies
at
Southern,
Illinois
University.
K
He
held
Affiliated
faculty
status
in
women,
gender
and
sexuality
studies
like
American
studies,
health,
education
and
communication
studies,
departments
where
he
taught
several
courses
on
gender
race
class,
sexuality,
Sports
and
media.
Additionally,
Derek
served
as
the
assistant
director
of
the
center
for
inclusive
Excellence
at
Southern,
Illinois
University,
where
he
assisted
with
the
daily
operations
for
the
black
lgbtq
women
and
latinx
Resource
Centers.
K
He
was
recognized
as
a
2017-2018
nominee
for
the
outstanding
teaching
award
by
the
Ohio
Association
for
two-year
colleges
in
2019.
He
was
awarded
the
tri-seize
Ralph
M
Bessie
excellence
in
teaching
award.
In
addition
to
being
recognized
by
Ohio
magazine
for
excellence
in
education.
In
2020
he
received
the
league
for
innovation
in
community
college's
teaching
Excellence
award.
K
He
is
involved
with
several
Innovative
projects
in
the
humanities,
from
grade
school
to
graduate
courses
as
a
2019
to
2020
recipient
of
the
inaugural
Jack
Joseph
and
Morton
Mandel
Humanities
faculty
Fellowship
Derek,
designed
a
curriculum
for
K-12
students
that
teaches
public
speaking
skills
by
examining
the
rhetoric
of
Carl,
B
Stokes
and
his
historic
mayoral
tenor
as
the
first
black
mayor
of
a
major
U.S
city
working
closely
with
the
Cleveland
Humanities
collaborative
CHC,
a
partnership
with
Tri-C
and
cwru.
He
has
been
involved
with
two
CHC
projects
in
Fall,
2019
and
2020.
K
He
was
selected
to
co-teach
a
graduate
seminar
course
entitled
teaching
careers
at
community
colleges
designed
to
give
cwru
graduate
students
in
the
humanities,
arts
and
humanistic
social
sciences,
an
introduction
to
Community
College
teaching
during
the
Summers
of
2020
and
2021.
He
co-facilitated,
chc's,
third
and
fourth
annual
reading
social
justice.
The
ansfield
Wolf
book
awards
awba
seminar,
which
attracted
faculty
from
across
the
country
to
participate.
K
K
awarded
to
the
Tri-C
full-time
faculty,
to
support
Innovative
projects
and
to
design
and
Implement
new
tools
to
enhance
instruction
and
increase
student
learning
outcomes.
Recently
he
completed
an
Ohio
Statewide
course
on
effective
online
teaching
practices
during
spring
and
fall
2021
hosted
by
the
Association
of
college
and
university
Educators
acue,
which
supports
his
current
research
focus
on
digital
disparities
and
educational
access
in
Fall
2021.
K
He
was
awarded
the
faculty
and
Leadership
sustainability
award
for
his
work,
integrating
environmental
justice
issues
into
the
classroom
as
well
as
Ohio
Association
of
two-year
colleges,
oatyc
teaching
grant
for
creating
a
new
curriculum
that
addresses
digital
technology
in
communication
in
summer
2022.
He
served
on
the
lead.
He
served
one
of
the
lead
faculty
in
the
Jack
Joseph
and
Morton
Mandel
youth,
Humanities
academics,
collaboratory
collaboratory
teaching
seminar
as
tri-seize
2022,
diversity,
equity
and
inclusion
recipient.
His
work
with
inclusion
and
Equity
remains
crucial
to
his
work
on
college
campuses
and
surrounding
communities.
K
This
fall.
He
will
complete
acue's
educator,
inclusive
teaching
for
Equitable
learning
micro
course,
in
addition
to
serving
as
co-chair
of
the
Roxboro
Elementary's,
diversity,
equity
and
inclusion,
committee,
mentoring
and
literacy,
mentoring
and
literacy
are
passions
for
Derek.
His
community
work
involves
coaching
in
the
Cleveland
Heights
youth
basketball,
recreation
league.
In
addition,
he
facilitates
a
community-based
group
called
Brooks
Brothers
briefings
designed
to
promote
the
power
of
reading
Dr
Williams
will
take
the
stage
to
share
opening
remarks
on
the
theme
following
his
opening
remarks.
K
H
H
Okay,
so
my
speech
is
about
my
Curious
superpower.
Spider-Man
spins,
powerful,
webs
Wonder
Woman
has
incredible.
Agility
Superman
can
fly.
The
superpower
I
have
is
just
as
amazing
and
is
obtainable
by
anyone.
It
is
curiosity
instead
of
casting
webs.
You
can
cast
very
important
and
interesting
questions
that
can
lead
you
to
want
to
explore.
H
Curiosity
helped
Dr
Martin,
Luther,
King
Jr,
achieve
great
success.
Curiosity
can
lead
to
Innovations
discoveries
and
strategies
for
social
justice
and
peace.
A
defining
moment
in
young
Martin's
life
that
sparked
his
curiosity
was
in
a
shoe
store
with
his
father.
He
was
prohibited
from
purchasing
shoes
from
the
white
section
of
the
store
because
of
his
race.
This
caused
him
to
question
racial
segregation
and
inequality.
Reading
is
a
great
way
to
satisfy
one's
curiosity.
H
She
Dr
King
did
not
just
read
books
and
forget
what
he
read.
He
took
knowledge
and
inspiration
from
the
books
and
tried
to
incorporate
the
things
he
had
learned
from
those
books
into
his
surroundings.
For
example,
one
of
his
favorite
leaders
and
Inspirations
was
Mahatma
Gandhi.
He
read
books
about
Gandhi,
standing
up
and
fighting
for
his
rights
with
a
peaceful
protest
because
of
his
curiosity
and
Gandhi's
example,
Martin
led
many
marches
and
protests
as
well.
While
everyone
can
access
curiosity
like
Dr
King,
they
have
to
develop
it.
H
L
Coretta's
courage,
C,
is
for
courageous
Miss
Coretta
Scott
King,
courageously
worked
alongside
Dr
King
O
is
for
organizing
Miss
Colorado
Scott
King
organized
many
civil
rights
events
in
the
King
foundation
after
King's
death
to
continue
working
with
civil
rights.
R
is
for
respect.
Miss
Coretta
Scott
King
deserves
just
as
much
respect
as
Dr
King.
He
is
for
Everlasting
Miss
Coretta
Scott
King
made
an
everlasting
impact
on
the
world.
M
Thank
you,
Boston
for
having
us
and
I
would
be
remiss
because,
as
you
will
see,
that
Dr
King
could
not
do
this
work
by
himself.
It
was
a
family
event.
We
just
talked
about
Dr
King,
Junior's
son,
giving
a
presentation,
so
it
was
a
family
affair.
So
we
would
be
remiss
if
we
did
not
introduce
our
fourth
member
of
our
wonderful
family
in
the
second
row.
Here
is
these
Ella
and
Mildred's
mother,
my
beautiful
partner,
Megan
Jones
Williams.
Can
you
still
stand.
M
M
I
would
like
to
extend
a
warm
thank
you
and
gratitude
to
Miss
Victoria
for
sharing
those
wonderful
words.
Also
I
would
like
to
congratulate
Mr,
Nick,
Nicholas,
Bates
and
inviting
me
here
and
I
want
to
have
a
quick
conversation
with
you
all,
but
before
I
start
you
all
I
would
like
to,
and
I
just
saw
Miss
Kennedy
Miss
Kennedy.
Could
you
stand
up
for
just
a
second
Miss
Kennedy
Miss
Kennedy?
Can
we
give
Miss
Kennedy
a
round
of
applause?
You
all
Miss
Kennedy
we
haven't
formally.
M
M
You
welcomes
from
my
home
state
of
Alabama,
but
what
I
would
like
to
do
before
I
get
into
my
short
little
overview
and
then
I'm
going
to
bring
brother
Nicholas
base
up.
I
would
like
to
give
an
acknowledgment
of
the
land
that
I
grew
up
on
the
land.
That
shaped
me
as
well
as
the
land
here.
I
would
like
to
give
an
acknowledgment
to
the
Massachusetts
and
the
First
Nation
indigenous
that
are
here.
We
stand
on
on
those
honorable
honorable
grounds.
M
I
am
from
Alabama.
We
call
it
Bama
and
Alabama.
You
all
stands
for
clearance
of
the
thicket
and
I'm
going
to
talk
a
little
bit
about
my
song,
because
I'm
gonna
encourage
you
all
to
find
that
song.
So
the
clearest
of
the
thinking
and
I
would
like
to
give
acknowledgment
to
the
four
major
tribes,
The
Creeks,
the
chickasaws,
the
Cherokee
and
the
choctaws.
I
grew
up
in
those
pine
cones
and
in
in
Alabama
and
I'll
talk
a
little
bit
about
that.
I
made
my
way
to
Cleveland,
Ohio
and
you'll.
M
Hear
me
talk
a
little
bit
about
Cleveland
Ohio
Dr
King
in
63
spent
most
of
his
time
in
that
City,
along
with
Malcolm
X
and
Cleveland
Ohio
is
called
Alabama
north.
So
many
people
migrated
from
The
Great
Migration,
but
Cuyahoga
I
would
like
to
give
a
land
acknowledgment
to
the
Iroquois
because
of
that
river
called
The
Cricket
River
Cleveland
was
established
as
an
industrial
hub.
M
I
found
my
song
in
Gainesville,
Alabama,
Bertha
Williams
and
then
Epps
Alabama,
my
grandpa
Nathan
Williams
come
up
in
the
black
belt.
There
was
a
young
man
by
the
name
of
burl
C
Coleman
known
as
the
country
blues
singer
as
Jaybird
Coleman.
When
he
was
12
years
old,
he
was
plowing
in
the
fields.
They
called
him
work
songs
and
they
gave
him
a
harmonica
and
he
would
blow
his
life
in
that
harmonica.
M
Now,
Jaybird
Coleman
migrated
to
Birmingham,
where
I
would
later
be
born.
My
grandfather,
Nathan
Williams
and
my
grandmother
Bertha
Williams.
They
migrated
to
Birmingham.
It's
called
The
Magic
City,
three
Precious
Minerals
make
that
City.
When
it
is
it's
iron
ore,
it's
Limestone
and
it's
cold,
my
granddad
would
grow
up
to
be
a
coal
miner,
remembering
them
songs
that
Jay
Bird
Coleman's
song
in
those
fields
about
struggle
about
sojourning.
M
My
song
is
never
over
and
I
want
you
all
to
understand
that
your
song
isn't
over
and
even
in
my
granddad's
last
days,
I
remember
my
granddad,
who
was
in
the
coal
mine
I,
remember
his
last
breaths
Deacon
of
First
Baptist
Church
in
Graysville
I.
Remember
my
granddad
on
the
respirator,
and
here
was
a
life
and
I
made
it
a
point
that
I
would
continue
my
granddad
so
so.
This
is
what
we
want
to
talk
about
this
adjourning
song.
What
does
that
mean?
M
My
dad
youngest
of
10
children,
Bertha
Williams
and
Nathan
Williams,
my
dad
was
grown,
was
raised
in
a
two
home
coal
miners
house
is
that
they
used
to
call
it,
but
my
granddad
remembered
those
songs.
He
heard
as
a
boy
jay
bird
Coleman
that
talked
about
that
the
coal
minor
life
I
want
to
say
one
thing
about
my
granddad:
he
had
diabetes.
M
It
was
one
morning
he
couldn't
get
his
boots
on
and
I
held
boots
on
today
to
honor
my
granddad.
He
used
to
wear
Stacy
Adam
boots
as
a
deacon
Granddad
was
sitting
down
at
that
table.
Y'all
I'm
telling
you
this
song.
My
grandmother
Birth
has
seen
that
the
diabetes
had
ravished
his
body
he's
sitting
there
struggling
to
get
his
boots
on
feet.
Swollen
my
grandma
Bertha
said
Nathan.
You
can't
go
down
there
in
that
coal
mine
not
today
and
my
granddad
said
Bert.
M
M
The
second
place
that
we
visit
when
we
first
place
we
visit
when
we
got
here
was
the
African
Meeting
House.
We
didn't
even
pack
up.
We
didn't
unload
our
bags,
you
won't.
We
went
there
and
we
stopped
like
our
kids
got
on.
We
wanted
to
touch
that
building.
That
was
the
first
first
building
one
of
the
first
building
freestanding
the
Baptist
Churches.
M
Well,
I
wanted
my
kids
to
see
that
and
I
would
be
remiss
that
when
we
talk
about
songs
I'm
here
in
the
city
of
Boston
and
so
much
work
was
done
by
Mariah
Stewart
Frederick
Douglass
Lord
William
Garrison,
Wendell
Phillips,
they
spoke
at
that
place.
I
wanted
my
kids
to
find
that
song
so
important
second
place.
We
went
when
we
were
here
in
the
great
city
of
Boston.
We
went
to
the
Boston
Harbor,
it's
cold.
M
We
were
out
there,
but
I
wanted
my
kids
to
see
that
because
I
want
them
to
understand
the
American
contradiction
that
at
the
same
time
you
had
these
13
colonies.
You
had
Americans
standing
up
in
Defiance
about
being
taxed
and
those
things
and
standing
up
to
a
British
government,
but
at
the
same
time
they
were
enslaving
individuals.
M
When
we
understand
the
Paradox
of
this
song,
we
can
find
a
song
of
Dr
King.
We
could
hear
it
in
his
voice
when
he
talks
about
the
Mountaintop
I've
been
to
the
Mountaintop
I
had
a
chance
to
look
over.
We
will
get
there
as
a
people
when
he
talked
about
I,
have
a
dream
and
Nicholas
and
I
are
going
to
talk
about
the
I
Have
a
Dream.
He
talks
about
it
in
three
parts.
M
M
I'm
gonna
say
that
again
my
great
Boston
people,
the
song,
just
continues.
It
doesn't
end,
then,
in
when
my
granddad
went
down
in
that
Coal
Mine
those
coal
miner
songs
and
on
Sundays
what
he
saw,
I'm,
not
worried
about
my
soul,
I'm,
not
worried
about
my
soul,
I'm,
not
worried
about
my
soul.
Oh
I'm,
not
worried
about
my
soul.
It
would
be
in
Birmingham
those
same
songs
from
the
field.
Hollis
Blue
Collar
people
stood
up
to
Bull
con,
as
we
heard
so
so
adamantly.
M
M
You
all
have
a
program
most
of
you
now
I,
can't
I
told
you
all
about
my
song
I'm
gonna
end
myself.
I
want
y'all
to
turn
that
program
around
y'all,
see
Yo
you'll,
see
a
quote.
You
don't
have
it.
That's:
okay,
y'all
just
home
along
with
us.
Can
we
all
read
that
quote:
It's
Gonna,
Be,
Our
Song
for
the
day
are
y'all
ready.
Let's
do
it.
M
M
M
They
called
it
a
a
teacher's
work
day,
but
it
kept
going
on
that
song
kept
going
on
and
we
get
a
song
that
we
talk
about
with
Stevie
Wonder,
Stevie
Wonder
said
songs
in
the
key
of
life,
and
then
he
comes
back
with
that
happy
birthday
to
you,
happy
birthday
to
you,
happy
birthday,
happy
birthday
to
you!
Okay,
we
sing
it
together.
You
all!
Let's
go!
Let's
go
happy
birthday
to
you!
Happy
birthday
to
you!
M
We
know
that
the
second
Abolitionist
Movement
what
we
call
the
second
reconstruction,
because
America
failed
on
his
promise
with
the
first
one
we
come
from
the
from
the
hometown,
I
mean
we
come
from
the
home
state
of
John
Bingham,
who
wrote
the
14th
Amendment
it's
interesting,
y'all
that
history
never
ends
it
just
continues,
and
as
history
continues,
our
voices
have
to
keep
singing.
We
have
to
keep
singing
Dr
King's
Song
is
Alive
and
Well
in
us
today.
Y'all
did
something
to
get
here.
Look
out
there,
it's
cold.
M
M
G
G
It's
it's
an
honor
to
have
you
here
and
speak
to
our
theme,
but
also
share
this,
this
wonderful
connection
with
music
and
to
highlight
the
experiences
of
blue
collar
and
working
class
families.
This
theme
is
really
important.
You
all
see
images.
The
image
on
the
screen
right
now
is
highlighting
the
Poor
People's
campaign,
so
this
particular
speech
was
delivered
a
few
months
before
Dr
King's
assassination
at
the
southern
Christian
leadership
conference
at
one
of
their
annual
retreats
in
preparation
for
the
Poor
People's
campaign.
G
So
when
Dr
Williams
says
that
King
was
not
finished,
unfortunately,
his
life
was
taken
from
him
and
taken
from
us
before
he
could
embark
on
the
significant
pieces
of
the
Poor
People's
campaign.
His
work
still
continues
in
us,
and
so
some
of
those
images
you
see
on
the
screen
were
chosen
intentionally
and
honored.
That
I
want
to
ask
you
this
question.
Dr
is
I'm
going
to
start
here.
There
are
many
MLK
Day
Celebrations
across
the
world
and
some
are
different
than
others.
G
There
are
many
that
choose
the
most
prominent
public
intellectual,
who
often
has
one
of
those
like
New,
York,
Times
bestsellers.
That's
a
coffee
table
book
that
is
someone
who
isn't
exactly
a
representative
of
the
communities
that
they're
speaking
for
so
for
you
in
choosing
this.
This
moniker
this
this
name,
this
title
of
blue
collar
scholar
I,
want
to
know
what
does
that
mean
for
you
and
additionally,
in
your
bio,
that
Gloria
reads
so
eloquently.
G
M
She
talked
about
my
grandfather,
Joe,
Lyons,
being
a
sharecropper
in
the
black
belt
of
of
Alabama,
and
she
talks
about
a
day
where
she
was
a
little
girl
and
she
went
to
the
settling
place.
He
called
it
settling
up
the
shell
crop
and
my
granddad
could
read
and
write
and
my
grandpa
Lions
the
storm.
As
we
know
with
the
shell
cropping,
you
would
have
to
pay
for
the
land
rent
the
land.
M
M
You
mean
that
your
body
could
be
found
probably
later
in
the
Tom
Beasley
River,
so
my
grandmother
goes
back
home
and
she's
very
afraid
for
her
father
and
she
talks
about
the
experience
of
my
grandfather,
Joe
Lyons
having
to
be
on
his
porch
and
stay
up
all
night
to
try
to
protect
his
kids
and
go
out
in
the
fields.
So
when
you
ask
me
about
blue
collar
is
more
of
a
lineage.
M
It's
more
of
the
sacrifice
and
the
struggle
that
my
my
family
has
made
from
the
black
belt
to
Birmingham
my
dad
was
a
iron
worker
and
that's
that's
who
I
am
and-
and
that's
you
know,
that's
what
runs
through
my
my
veins,
so
the
blue
collar
is
is
basically
honoring.
The
lineage
and
every
time
I
come
into
a
classroom.
That'd
be
clear.
Cleveland,
Boston,
Milwaukee
I
always
want
to
sound.
Like
my
Grandmama,
my
grandpa
and
my
students.
M
They
laugh
at
me,
so
they
say
Professor
d
man,
you
really
country
I,
said
that's
exactly
what
I
want
to
attend,
because
that's
the
voice
of
my
folks
and
I
want
to
keep
it
that
way.
The
activists
that's
really
important.
My
daughter
is
named
after
again
Ella
Baker,
the
great
organizer
and
I
love.
What
the
what
was
the
poet
said
about
organizing
and
those
things
like
science
fiction
and
those
things,
Ella
Baker
work
with
Dr
King,
and
he
it
was.
M
So
I
heard
that
and
I
said,
I
got
a
call,
Professor
Collins,
so
I
got
in
contact
with
us,
because
I
said
Professor
Collins
did
you
say
this
quote?
I
just
wanted
to
make
sure
she
said
yeah.
That
sounds
like
me
so
that
I
took
that
call
at
the
community
college
at
the
community
college
level.
I'm
at
this
I'm
I'm,
with
the
students
that
are
like
me,
I
wasn't
set
to
go
to
college
I
was
set
to
go
into
and
I
would
have
been.
Okay
with
that,
I
was
set
to
go
into
the
iron
Mill.
M
Month
reason
why
Carter
G
Wilson
is
at
the
center
of
my
pedagogy
is
that
Carter
G
Woodson
based
his
work
on
teaching
and
that's
again
the
route
I
come
from
my
aunts,
my
cousin,
my
younger
babies,
Christy
who's
watching
she's
taught
kindergarten
in
Birmingham
for
20
years,
following
that
Legacy
of
my
mom,
so
Carter
G
Wilson,
who
worked
as
a
coal
miner
and
had
this
thing
of
teaching
to
deliver
the
the
teaching.
That's
the
most
important
thing.
So
that's
kind
of
the
blue
collar
scholar,
activist
academic,
all.
C
G
They're
these
wonderful
pieces
read
by
mildrick
and
Ella
at
the
beginning.
This
amazing
piece
on
super
powers
I'd,
never
heard
of
it
frame.
This
way,
my
superpower
is
something
that
everybody
can
access
and
when
we
tend
to
talk
about
superpowers,
we
tend
to
think
about
superpowers,
as
these
things
that
are
are
not
accessible
to
us.
As
these
things
that
make
us
seem
ordinary,
like
there's
no
magic
in
what
we
do.
This
is
this
piece.
G
It's
a
speech
said
Thurman,
Howard
Thurman
does,
and
he
talks
about
whenever
I
feel
myself
getting
low,
I
think
about
the
magic
of
breathing.
How
my
body
does
it
on
its
own?
That
I
don't
even
have
to
do
anything
it
just
is
it
happens,
and
so
there's
this
piece
about
superpowers
and
then
this
wonderful
piece
that
is
read
by
Ella
about
Mrs,
Coretta,
Scott,
King
to
be
included
and
I
love.
G
How
you
you,
how
they
look
at
all
of
these
elements
that
make
up
Dr
King,
not
just
teachers,
but
all
of
these
other
elements
that
make
him
so
incredible
and
they
also
acknowledge
how
there
are
other
people
that
contribute
to
the
journey
or
or
the
song,
to
use
your
theme
of
Martin
Luther
King.
Why
do
you
think
it
was
important
for
them
to
highlight
that
and
then
this
piece
for
you
is
that
you
kind
of
allude
to
we
can't
study
Martin,
Luther
King
Jr
in
isolation.
M
You
may
not
see
that
growth
now
I
want
to
give
my
props
to
miss
Catherine
Billingsley,
because
that
photo
that
y'all
saw
I
was
a
four-year-old
getting
in
front
of
an
audience
and
speaking,
like
my
like
the
kids
and
Catherine
Billingsley
mentored
and
helped
me
find
my
song
and
those
things
some
other
great
wonderful
women,
Miss
Janie,
Welch,
Miss,
Miss,
John,
Lavinia
Jones.
All
of
these
women
helped
me
learn
that
song
so
with
Dr
King,
there's
something
that
planted
the
seed,
and
this
connects
us
to
Howard
Thurman.
M
M
Mcfitters
was
the
first
black
librarian
in
Atlanta
over
it
and
guess
who
she
came
in
contact
with
a
young,
Dr
King,
and
she
tells
this
funny
story,
and
she
said
he
was
a
little
bitty
guy
and
he
would
prop
up
on
the
on
on
the
circulation
desk
and
she
would
play
this
game
with
him.
She
said,
what's
on
your
mind,
Martin,
and
he
said
oh,
nothing
in
particularity,
and
that
would
be
their
way
of
signaling.
M
She
comes
down
Alabama
and
she
has
a
sweatshirt
on
and
the
sweatshirt
is
a
Dr
King
I
Have
a
Dream
speech,
and
it
has
the
whole
long
speech
on
the
backup
and
everywhere
she
went.
I
just
was
studying
them
words
and
following
them
words,
I
said
and
I
said
Aunt
many
and
she
would.
She
lived
up.
North
I
said
I'm
many.
This
was
the
time
our
young
people.
This
was
in
the
80s
time,
where
you
just
couldn't
click
and
get
a
image.
Sir.
You
had
to
like
be
in
the
location.
M
So
if
you
weren't
in
DC,
you
didn't
get
this
shirt
So.
My
aunt
got
it
So.
My
aunt
surprised
me,
she
didn't
tell
me
she
was
going
to
leave.
She
left
it
with
my
grandmother,
Bertha
Williams
and
I
wore
that
sweatshirt.
It's
navy,
blue
I
I
wore
the
the
image
and
the
words
off
and
those
words
captivated
me
you
all
those
words
stuck
with
me:
I
have
a
dream,
deeply
rooted
in
the
American
dream.
M
They
stayed
with
me
so
one
program
we
celebrated
Dr,
Martin,
Luther,
King
and
I
said
to
my
I,
said
to
my
mom
and
dad
I
said:
Mom
I
want
to
do
the
entire
Dr
King
I
Have
a
Dream
speech.
My
mama
looked
at
me
and
my
dad
said
boy.
You
can't
say
all
them
big
words
and
we're
gonna
put
you
up
there
and
you
ain't
gonna,
say
all
them
big
words:
I
said
Mom,
Dad
I
can
do
it
so
I
get
up
there.
Y'all
and
I
do
the
speech.
M
My
grandmother
is
calling
all
of
the
siblings
saying
you
know
that
boy
I
got
up
there
and
that
boy
was
saying
all
them.
Big
Dr
King
was
that's
how
my
grandmother
said.
I
was
so
proud
of
my
baby,
but
that
stuck
with
me
in
words,
moved
to
work.
I
started
to
understand
what
those
words
meant,
and
this
is
getting
to
Dr
King.
What
you're
talking
about
Miss
Mr
Bates
is
that
the
I
Have
a
Dream,
although
I
was
attracted
to
the
words
and
really
the
chorus.
We
know
that
I
have
a
dream.
M
M
So
he
had
this
I
have
a
dream
kind
of
it
was
more
like
a
chorus
and
when
he
got
up
to
speak
Mahalia
Jackson,
when
we
talking
about
singing
Mahalia
Jackson
song
to
King,
Council
King
and
she
said,
Martin
tell
them
about
the
dream
and
that's
when
he
started
going
into
the
dream.
Y'all
that
wasn't
planned.
He
broke
script,
but
for
us
to
move
beyond
that
dream
and
that's
how
I
move
beyond
the
dream
is
that
we
got
to
listen
to
all
three
parts
of
the
song.
Dr
King's
song
of
I
have
a
dream.
M
It's
incredibly
entitled
that
you
all,
but
it
works
out
of
three
speech
structure.
Now
we
I
talked
about
Mariah
Stewart
Mariah
Stewart
comes
from
the
legacy
of
what
they
call
the
black
Jeremiah,
the
black
Jeremiah.
You
all
has
a
task
to
speak
on
behalf
of
the
conditions
of
the
oppressed
three
parts.
First
part
you
look
at
a
distinctive
origin
or
originality
of
what
is
being
the.
What
is
being
the
the
promise.
So
that's
the
first
thing,
so
you
look
at
the
promise.
M
The
promise
of
that
America
right
all
are
all
people
shall
have
inalienable
rights.
So
that's
the
that's
what
we
that's,
what
we
call
the
First
Act
Dr
King.
Does
that
you
all?
He
quotes
Abraham,
Lincoln
four
scores
and
he's
laying
that
out.
So
the
Jeremiah
talks
a
little
bit
about
what
was
promised.
The
second
part
of
a
Jeremiah
is
that
they
critique
the
currencies
a
system,
as
is
not
upholding
those
values
that
was
promised.
That's
what
Dr
King
is
doing
in
his
second
stanza
of
I
have
a
dream.
M
He
lays
out
the
first
right,
American
this
Beacon
of
democracy,
but
the
Negro
language
and
poverty.
We
come
to
cash,
a
check
that
has
been
insufficient
funds,
so
he's
calling
America
on
its
hypocrisy
that
we
talked
about.
We
came
in
here,
Boston
Harbor
African
meeting
place
now.
The
third
is
the
dream.
The
third
part
of
a
Jeremiah
is
to
stand
in
practice
and
to
talk
about
the
possibility
that
there's
still
time,
there's
still
that
word
h-o-p-e,
which
Senator
Dr
King
there's
still
time
to
live
up
to
those
things.
M
So
when
we
listen
to
the
dream,
we're
looking
at
what
Dr
King
says
should
happen,
if
we
so
do
the
things
that
are
promised
in
the
first
and
the
second
I
like
to
break
it
down
like
this
and
be
I'm
in
the
city
of
Boston,
you
all
and
I
would
be
remiss
I'm
a
person
of
words
but
I
like
to
move
words
to
action.
I
am
here
in
the
hometown
of
one
of
my
favorite
hip-hop
musicians.
His
name
is
Keith
E.
M
M
Now
the
guru
was
from
Morehouse
I
mean
he
went
to
Morehouse
from
Boston.
Why
am
I
telling
you
all?
That
is
that
his
mother
Barbara
Elam,
was
a
librarian.
You
are,
she
got
him
to
understand
the
Power
of
Words
so
that
I
Have
a
Dream
speech.
You
all
I
started
to
pick
it
apart.
What
is
Dr
King
talking
about
witness
faith,
I
go
back
to
Mississippi,
I
go
back
to
Alabama
and
what
Dr
King
was
saying.
Is
that
hope?
But
the
hope
you
all
that's
the
chorus
you
are
and
y'all
know
any
good
song.
M
We
like
the
chorus.
The
chorus
gets
us
in
the
in
the
mood,
but
if
we
only
listening
to
the
chorus
you
all
we
miss
the
lyrics.
That's
why
Gamestar
is
important.
Those
with
lyrics.
You
are
and
I
connected
those
to
the
Dr,
King
movement
and
those
kind
of
things.
So
we
have
to
go
back
to
what
Brother
Stevie
Wonder
Said,
lyrics,
As
life.
G
Right,
there's
this
there's
this
wonderful
way
that
you
weave
in
the
women
of
the
movement,
which
is
particularly
special
three
years
ago
on
this
MLK
day
in
this
very
same
room
under
the
sort
of
organizing
of
Catherine
Kennedy
and
Kenneth
Elmore
Miss
Kennedy
is
the
former
director
of
The
Howard
Thurman
Center
for
common
ground
in
the
first
ever
paid
director
of
The,
Howard,
Thurman
Center
for
common
ground
and
president
Kenneth
Elmore
shall
I
say
now.
Was
the
former
inter
social
former
associate
Provost
and
dean
of
students?
G
G
And
so,
when
you
talk
about
this
idea
of
song,
but
also
weaving
into
the
women
of
the
movement,
how
they've
been
instrumental
and
bolstering
and
making
sure
these
movements
thrive
in
so
many
different
ways
and
layers?
Why
is
that
important
for
you
to
continue
to
highlight
in
your
practice
so
much
so
that
you
even
named
your
daughter
after
one
of
the
women
of
the.
M
Movement
absolutely
and
I
want
I
call
it
I
call
it
brother
Bates,
the
Ella
effect.
That's
what
I
named
my
dissertation
and
it's
all
about
the
works
of
Ella
Baker
and
it's
my
daughter
when
she
gets
up
she.
The
first
thing
she
wakes
up
to
is
a
photo
of
Ella
Baker,
because
I
want
her
to
understand
the
importance
of
the
work
that
she
did
now,
then.
The
other
picture
is
another
Hometown
Shiro,
Angela
Davis
and
my
work
is
informed
by
that
women
are
at
the
center
of
the
teaching
experience.
M
For
me,
black
women.
My
mother
was
my
first
teacher
staying
at
home
with
us
and
instilling
the
to
us
who
we
were
as
people.
My
mother
was
an
activist.
She
went
around
the
small
town
because
she
was
a
young
mother.
My
mother,
my
mother,
was
a
a
mom
at
18
and
I
came
along
at
20,
my
mom
and
dad
and
my
mom
understood
community
and
that's
the
thing
I
want
to
talk.
We
need
to
sing
Community.
That's
why
I
had
y'all
sing
with
me
and
I'm,
not
sing
at
you.
M
My
mother
would
go
around
the
community
for
young
women
who
had
children
that
were
still
in
high
school
and
get
their
child.
My
dad
did
a
thing
called
plus
one.
He
always
took
another
child
with
it,
so
we
never.
It
was
four
of
us,
it's
my
younger
sister
Christy,
my
younger
sister
Shantae
and
my
older
brother
Eddie
Jr,
and
you
all.
We
never
were
in
a
house
where
it
was
just
us.
We
would
show
up
and
be
a
new
childhood
Mama
who's
child.
That's
such
and
such
up
in
the
street.
M
So
my
mother
used
to
do
that
and
I
and
I
and
I
picked
up
on
that.
So
the
Ella
effect
and
what
I
wanted
to
do
with
the
ill
effect
is
how
can
I
take
those
strategies
and
the
things
that
I
learned
from
First
Baptist
Church,
my
mom,
my
dad
my
dad
and
to
do
that
into
mentoring?
That's
what
Thurman
did
for
King
King
was
an
unfinished
product
when
he
came
in.
He
had
those
roots,
but
it
was
Boston
that
cultivated
him.
M
You
all
that
made
him
who
he
was
and
for
him
to
find
the
love
of
his
life
and
those
different
types
of
things.
So
Boston
has
that
significance
there.
So
when
we
talk
about
black
women
in
that
organizational
power,
I
even
want
to
go
further
back
because
claretta's,
mother,
Miss
Bernice
and
Coretta
Scott
King
y'all.
M
She
talks
about
something
very
instrumental
when
you,
if
you
read
her
her
latest
biography,
that
she
wrote
before
her
past
and
she
says
that
when
she
was
15
years
old,
her
fault,
mother
and
father
of
the
house
was
burned
to
the
ground
and
she
cried
and
we
said
her
dad
said
we
have
no,
we
got
to
keep
moving
and
she
talked
about
her
death,
but
but
Bernice
Coretta,
Scott,
King,
Miss
King.
Her
mother
was
a
voice
coach,
that's
interesting!
M
You
all,
and
she
comes
here
and
crafts,
her
gifts
of
singing
Dr,
King,
dear
mother,
who
tragically
lost
her
life,
singing
and
playing
the
Lord's
Prayer
and
ever
needs
a
church
where
her
father,
A.D
Williams.
Before
him,
his
father
actually
Minister
there.
So
Alberta
was
the
Muse
Miss
Alberta
was
the
music
director
and
she
told
Dr
King
got
to
say
so.
A
lot
of
us
will
think
that
Dr
King
gets
his
lyric
his
lyrical
polls
because
Dr
King
is
a
beautiful,
Master
repetition.
M
He
gets
it
from
his
mother.
He
gets
it
from
the
black
women
in
the
church
that
taught
us
how
Sunday
school
I
learned
how
to
read
from
my
mother's
Grace,
but
also
from
Sunday
school.
You
all
and
I
was
being
taught
that
at
the
same
time,
because
you
all
suffer
from
dyslexia,
so
words
are
backwards
to
me
still
to
this
day.
It
takes
me
a
long
time
to
get
through
something
I
read
it
three
four
times
so
in
the
K-12
system.
M
My
teachers
wrote
me
off,
but
it
was
those
black
women,
Miss
Jamie
Welch
that
opened
up
that
Sunday
school
book
and
I
ain't
trying
to
get
religious
on
y'all
I'm
talking
about
the
institution,
young
Williams,
you
can
do
it
again.
We
got
time.
Do
it
again
them
easter
speeches,
y'all
see
me,
go
up
there.
Look
this
way
they
do
y'all.
They
just
give
them
to
us
in
February
and
they
said:
okay,
you're
gonna
stand
there
right
and
you're
gonna.
Do
this
Easter
speech
every
year?
M
Those
practices
you
all
they
were
teaching
me
my
song
and
that's
the
thing
that
I
owe
my
mother
making
me
stand
up
in
the
kitchen
and
recite
that
if
you're
gonna
get
up
and
do
that,
Dr,
King
well,
you're
gonna
say
it
to
me.
Three
four
times
say
this
on
those
things
and
I
saw
that
love
you
all.
In
my
partner
Megan
as
we
drive,
I'm,
driving
and
and
Megan,
there
got
the
speeches
and
said:
y'all
go
over
she
getting
them
dressed
in
those
kind
of
things.
M
G
So
in
1953
there's
this
guy
right,
his
name
is
Howard
Washington
Thurman.
He
was
brought
to
Boston
University's
campus
by
then
president
case
to
create
and
enter
religious
and
Interfaith
worship
at
Marsh
Chapel
here
at
Boston
University,
which
was
it
was
a
traditional
Methodist
institution
in
church.
He
was
brought
from
San
Francisco,
where
he
helped
co-found
the
church
for
the
fellowship
of
all
people,
one
of
the
first
recognized
and
known
interracial
inter-ethnic
Interfaith
churches
in
this
country.
G
You
mentioned
this
guy
a
lot
there's
this
book
that
you
and
I
were
talking
about
earlier
Jesus
in
the
disinherited
written
by
Howard
Thurman,
where
he
outlines
a
five-part
sermon.
Actually
right
when
we
talked
about
King
working
over
things
several
times
Jesus
this
inheritance
started
as
a
five-part
sermon
called
the
significance
of
Jesus.
It
also
had
an
earlier
name,
The
Temptations
of
Jesus,
but
in
it
he
is
alluding
to
Jesus
as
something
that
we
can
study.
G
As
a
subject,
he
also
alludes
to
Jesus
as
being
one
of
the
highest
forms
and
symbol
of
symbols
of
hope
and
love.
Now
we
were
talking
about
what
you
knew
about
this
book
and
what
you
know
about
what
this
book
meant
to
Dr,
King
and
I.
Just
wanted
you
to
elaborate
on
an
audience,
as
you
alluded
to
Thurman
several
times
being
a
teacher,
and
you
know
what
what
this
impact
on
King
could
be
right.
G
We
also
know
that
Howard
Thurman
was
actually
classmates
with
Martin
Luther,
King's
father
at
Morehouse
and
additionally
Kings
last
year
here
at
Boston,
University
was
Thurman's
first
year
here
at
Boston
University,
so
King
was
sit
in
the
back
and
take
copious
notes
of
some
of
Howard
Thurman's
sermons,
and
there
were
some
jokes
from
time
to
time
with
his
friends.
They
would
say
man,
king
did
you
get
all
of
that
here
we
go
yeah
and
they
would
turn
to
each
other
like
nah.
He
don't
understand
it
went
over
his
head.
G
M
If
Ebenezer
Baptist
Church
the
city
of
Atlanta,
gave
Dr
King
his
song
I
would
say
that
Mr
Howard
Thurman
gave
him
his
lyrics
and
I'm
gonna
I
want
to
break
that
down
a
little
bit.
A
great
debt
is
old
through
brother
Thurman
and
sister
Sue
therm,
and
what
I
mean
by
that
is
that
this
book
here
that
you're
referring
to
it
is
reported
by
by
Lauren
Bennett,
who
is
a
great
scholar,
was
the
scholar
of
Ebony
magazine
from
Chicago
great
City
of
Chicago,
that
we
love.
M
He
said
that
Dr
King
carried
a
copy
of
this
text
around
with
him
everywhere,
and
he
would
use
this
as
a
way
of
introspective
meditation.
So
not
only
did
he
give
him
this
inner
peace
to
go
out
and
do
that
hard
work,
and
we
talking
about
that
blue
collar
work.
That's
that
labor
work.
Dr
King
gave
his
life
doing
what
you
all
breaking
his
route
and
going
back
to
Memphis
to
help
those
sanitation
Strikers,
and
he
uses
those
things
in
the
labor.
M
But
this
book
is
Paramount
and
Thurman
does
not
get
enough
credit
because
you
all
Thurman
gave
the
spiritual
Foundation,
but
he
also
gave
the
strategy
of
the
Civil
Rights
Movement.
If
we
look
at
this
thing
called
social
gospel,
because
I
would
say
that
Dr
King's
Song
is
a
song
of
of
Social
Gospel
that
later
turned
into
black
Social
Gospel.
M
We
know
that
the
social
gospel
movement
comes
out
of
Washington,
glad
Columbus
Ohio
two
hours
from
Cleveland
Washington
Gladden,
it's
the
first
one
of
the
first
ministers
to
talk
a
little
bit
about
is
not
just
enough
to
study
Christianity
based
on
this
kind
of
in
intro
personal.
This
in
interperson
interpersonal
reflection.
What
about
a
greater
society?
And
he
was
one
of
the
first
ministers
to
kind
of
partner
with
the
labor
movement
in
Union,
and
this
is
where
we
begin
to
see
this
social
gospel
take
place
in
the
late
1800s.
M
Dr
King
would
be
an
inheritant
of
this
Legacy
of
black
Social
Gospel,
some
of
those
great
pioneers,
Ida
B,
Wells,
Booker,
T,
Washington
W.E.B
the
boys,
and
we
can
link
this
all
the
way
up
to
James
Combs
black
black
theology,
all
the
way
to
Dr
Cornell
West,
who
I
learned
from
because
Dr
West
was
really
the
first
person
that
got
me
to
think
about
music
and
the
reflection
of
this
continuous
song
or
Dr.
West
says
that
some
of
our
greatest
theorists
are
musicians,
so
Howard
Thurman
goes
to
India
in
the
1930s.
M
I
want
us
to
make
these
connections
you
all.
He
goes
in
the
1930s,
the
first
black
African-American
to
meet
Gandhi.
He
brings
those
tactics
back
over
he's
influencing
King
with
this
type
of
tactic.
This
is
very
important
when
we
talk
about
the
legacy
of
Howard
Thurman
in
this
in
this
book.
So
Thurman
gives
him
his
lyrics.
M
Thurman
gives
him
his
his
theoretical,
and
even
when
we
talk
about
today,
when
we
look
at
today,
Dr
West
I
would
say
is
the
product
of
of
of
Howard
Thurman
and
the
work
that
he
has
done.
So
that
is
the
Legacy
I.
Never
talk
about
Dr
King.
Without
his
mentors.
We
never
make
it
you
all
without
our
mentors.
Mentors
are
important.
I
would
not
be
a
professor
without
my
mentors
thank
the
Lord
for
mentors.
M
So
I
see
this
as
this
constant
plate
that
Dr
King
got
his
spiritual
Foundation
to
understand
himself
through
Howard
Thurman
I
want
to
lastly
say
that
Howard
Thurman
and
Dr
King
were
both
Grandma
boys
I'm
a
grandma
boy
twice
over
Bertha
Williams
and
Martha
Ray
Hill,
and
they
talked
about
their
grandmother
and
they're
having
those
experiences,
and
they
also
were
Country.
Boys
Howard
Thurman
goes
into
the
woods
and
he
meditates,
and
he
sees
himself
not
only
through
the
spiritual
reflection
of
being
Oneness
with
the
tree.
M
He
talked
about
his
favorite
tree
I
had
a
favorite
tree,
you
all
growing
up
in
them.
Pine
Woods
of
Alabama
and
I
would
sit
in
in
in
and
meditate
and
those
things
so
Howard
Thurman
them
being
country
boys
and
their
grandmothers
shaped
by
his
hands.
I
want
to
leave
with
this
last
thing
about
Mr,
Thurman,
Mr
Thurman
said
that
his
grandmother
who
shaped
him
was
enslaved.
M
M
G
In
this
book,
The
Terminix,
the
fundamental
question
I
must
mention
that
he
said
what
would
Jesus
say
to
someone
with
their
back
against
the
wall.
That
has
been
our
time.
I
want
to
leave
you
if
you
have
anything
else
that
you
would
like
to
share
with
the
people
and
then
we'll
continue
with
the
closing
pieces
of
our
program.
I.
M
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
B
She
also
provides
leadership
in
implementing
two
essential
pillars
of
bu's
2030
strategic
plan
as
the
university
Works
to
enhance
the
environment
and
opportunities
it
affords
to
all
members
of
our
community.
This
includes
a
growing
portfolio
programs
among
them
the
target
of
opportunity,
hiring
program,
bu
dni,
Stars
program,
the
university
Scholars
Program
and
faculty
and
staff
Community
networks,
as
well
as
the
bu
Arts
initiative,
the
Newberry
Center
and
the
lgbtqia
center
for
faculty
and
staff.
Please
join
me
in
giving
a
warm
welcome
to
Victoria
sahani.
N
Oh
good
afternoon,
thank
you
Dean
Campbell
Foster
for
that
generous
introduction.
Thank
you
also
to
director
Bates
and
Dr
Williams
for
that
insightful
and
thought-provoking
conversation
as
Dean
Campbell
Foster
mentioned,
I
am
Victoria
sahani
associate
Provost
for
community
and
inclusion
here
at
Boston,
University.
N
Living
today,
warning
against
the
temptation
of
despair,
King
reignites,
our
energy
for
change.
In
the
face
of
adversity,
saying
quote
in
any
social
Revolution.
There
are
times
when
the
Tailwinds
of
Triumph
and
fulfillment
favor
us
and
other
times
when
strong
headwinds
of
disappointment
and
setbacks
beat
against
us
relentlessly.
N
N
N
N
N
King
emphasized
in
his
answers
to
the
interviewer's
questions
that
the
next
phase
of
the
struggle
was
a
struggle
for
genuine
equality,
not
just
personhood
and
citizenship.
From
a
legal
perspective,
perhaps
King
knew
even
then
just
how
long
that
new
struggle
would
take
more
than
half
a
century
later.
We
are
still
in
that
struggle
and
trying
to
push
forward
against
the
headwinds
King
offers
a
blueprint
for
Success.
However,
that
shows
that
we
are
indeed
closer
to
the
goal.
N
I
think
that
certain
unique
things
within
any
culture
and
certain
cultural
patterns,
when
you
get
to
the
process
of
amalgamation,
can
really
lift
the
whole
culture,
and
it
seems
to
me
that
integration
at
its
best
is
the
opportunity
to
participate
in
the
beauty
of
diversity.
End
quote
all
of
us
here
in
this
room
and
joining
via
the
Internet
are
celebrating
the
beauty
of
diversity,
with
our
very
presence
gathering
together
in
a
single
place,
with
a
common
purpose,
sharing
peace
and
love.
N
The
Simplicity
of
King's
message
is
its
power.
King
knew
that
the
future
of
the
Civil
Rights
struggle
would
not
be
so
Stark,
not
so
literally
black
and
white,
but
every
shade
in
between,
as
we
bring
together,
various
cultures,
races
genders
Creeds
colors
nationalities,
religious
beliefs,
accents
and
stories
of
origin,
as
we
continue
to
honor
uphold
and
build
on
King's
Legacy.
Let
our
own
sense
of
direction
toward
a
more
just
future
be
guided
and
nourished
by
our
Tailwinds
of
Triumph
propelling
us
toward
the
resplendent
welcoming
beauty
of
diversity.
Thank
you.
G
All
right
so
check
this
out.
I'm
gonna
be
brief,
because
y'all
been
here
for
a
while,
because
somebody
clap
like
yeah,
so
the
experience
of
Love
is
either
a
necessity
or
a
luxury.
If
it'd
be
a
luxury,
it
is
Expendable
if
it'd
be
a
necessity,
then
to
deny
it
is
to
perish.
These
are
the
words
from
Howard
Thurman's
book
disciplines
of
the
spirit.
It's
the
last
paragraph
last
sentence
of
the
book
at
this
time.
G
I
want
to
show
some
love
to
the
folks
at
these
tables
at
the
back
over
there,
with
all
these
cores
running
through
they're
on
cameras,
all
of
these
different
things:
spew
Productions,
let's
Nancy,
Chris
field,
DeSean
Nate
as
well,
wouldn't
be
able
to
do
this
without
those
folks.
Thank
you
to
the
mayor's
office.
Thank
you
to
the
senior
diversity
office.
Thank
you
to
our
wonderful
students.
They
have
the
day
off
and
classes,
don't
even
start
till
Thursday,
so
they
don't
even
have
to
be
here.
So
we're
happy
that
they're
able
to
join
us.
G
Thank
you
to
you
all
for
coming
in
Danielle's,
backstage
tremendously
helpful
and
core
to
running
this
operation.
Carla
Amber,
all
those
wonderful
folks,
if
I
said
some
names
and
I
missed
your
names,
it's
because
people
are
ready
to
get
out
of
the
room
and
I'm.
So
sorry,
so
I
think
I
said
everybody's
name.