Dolores Huerta, a labor leader and activist, will deliver the keynote address at Duke’s Martin Luther King, Jr. commemoration at 3 p.m. Sunday in the Chapel. The theme of the commemoration is “Where Do We Go from Here? Overcoming Inequity and Building Opportunity.” Huerta will speak about how America can deal with some of the challenges it faces, according to a Duke News release.
Huerta, along with Cesar Chavez, founded the United Farm Workers labor union in the early 1960s and then organized a national grape boycott in support of farm workers who were being mistreated. She currently runs the Dolores Huerta Foundation, which helps train organizers in poor communities.
On MLK Day, the African Children’s Choir will sing at 2 p.m. in Page Auditorium. At 5 p.m. students and community members will march from the Admissions Office to the Chapel and hold a candlelight vigil. The vigil will offer remembrance for Haiti, which suffered a devastating earthquake Jan. 12, and a speech by Ben Reese, vice president for institutional equity.
Alysa Stanton, the first black female rabbi in America, will speak Tuesday at an event titled Chaos or Community: A Mosaic of Dr. King’s Living Dream, which includes presentations by several student groups about the legacies of King’s dream. The event will be held at 6 p.m. in Reynolds Auditorium, and Stanton will speak with students afterward in the Mary Lou Williams Center. Stanton is currently the rabbi of Congregation Bayt Shalom in Greenville, N.C.
Student volunteers will help package meals to be sent to Haiti, Bolivia and other countries at an event at Durham’s Southern High School. Duke will provide transportation to the event, which will run from 5 to 9 p.m. Wednesday.
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