North Central College will host its first Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Virtual Vision Day on Monday, January 18, beginning at 9AM and ending at 1PM. The College’s MLK Vision Day Teach-In sessions will feature a variety of presenters from the North Central College community, and the MLK Vision Day luncheon will feature speaker Kijuana Boulrece ’94, therapist and community educational advocate.
Event Location & Timeline:
Vision Day Teach-In sessions: Zoom (Open to the public; registration required)
Vision Day luncheon: North Central College YouTube Channel
9AM – Vision Day Teach-In sessions begin
noon – Vision Day Teach-In sessions end, Vision Day Luncheon begins
1PM – Vision Day Luncheon ends
Other North Central College MLK Celebration Month events
Thursday, February 4, 7PM, North Central Fine & Performing Arts – The Langston Hughes Project – Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz
This is a multimedia concert performance and celebration of music, spoken-word, and visuals based on Langston Hughes’s kaleidoscopic poem suite, “Ask Your Mama – 12 Moods for Jazz” – Hughes’s homage in verse and music to the struggle for artistic and social freedom at the beginning of the 1960s. The poem is Langston Hughes’ response to the juxtaposition of the Black explosion in the cultural arts of the 1960s vis-à-vis the racial and social injustice of those times. Register for access to the free performance here.
Wednesday, February 10, 5PM, Zoom – Dr. Eddie Glaude, Jr., Black History Month Keynote
New York Times Bestselling Author & Chair of Princeton’s Department of African American Studies. The Black History Month Keynote is sponsored by BMO Harris Bank and Nicor Corporation. Register for the event here.
