2009 MLK Commemoration
Concert
AKOMA: Lifting Weary Voices, Raising Freedom’s Song: Black Sacred Music as Resistance in the Civil Rights Movement. January 27, 2008, 8:00 pm Wadsworth Auditorium. Rochester檚 African American Women檚 Gospel Choir, whose West African Akan name means patience, endurance, consistency, and faithfulness. 檚 vocal and spoken word ministry are rooted in the African American sacred song and oral traditions.
Keynote Address
A Lecture by Charles Cobb, Jr., field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the Mississippi Delta (1962) and Visiting Professor at Brown University.
Friday, March 10, 2009, 7:00 pm
College Union Ballroom
These events are sponsored by the Office of the Provost, the Division of Student & Campus Life, Africana/ Black Studies, Office of Multicultural Programs, Volunteer Services, and the Martin Luther King, Jr., Commemoration Committee.