Document Type

Brochure

Publication Date

1-20-2020

Abstract

Theme: Remaking, Reshaping, and Restructuring

A Celebration of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Chapel: Remaking, Reshaping, Restructuring our World, Rev. Dr. Barbara Reynolds

Rev. Dr. Reynolds is an author, church pastor, and journalist who knew both Martin and Coretta King. Reynolds' book, No, I Won’t Shut Up: 30 Years of Telling It Like It Is, includes a forward written by Coretta Scott King. Her latest book is co-written with Coretta Scott King, My Life, My Love, My Legacy (2017), a memoir focusing on King.

Reynolds attended Howard University Divinity School in 1988, graduating in 1992 and was ordained as a minister in 1993, later earning a D. Min. from United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio, in 1997. She also was the founder of Harriet’s Children, an organization that assisted women who struggle with alcohol and drug addiction.

Workshops:

Celebrating the Unity and Diversity of the Human Race through the Use of Forensics/Science, Dr. Dan King

Martin Luther King, Jr. in Historical Context, Dr. Ben Wetzel

Understanding Environmental Racism: The Disproportionate Burden of Pollution on Minorities in the U.S., Dr. Phil Grabowski

The Last Lynching in Indiana: Racism and the Continuing Problem of Evil, Dr. Ed Meadors

Play Performance

Defamation (2012) - Todd Logan

Defamation is an old-fashioned courtroom drama. The premise is a civil suit: Ms. Wade, an African-American business owner, is suing Mr. Golden, a Jewish real estate developer, for defamation. What follows is a 75-minute riveting trial that "holds our prejudices and assumptions under a powerful lens, and does not let go except by way of an unsettling self-examination."

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