About this Occasion
The Neighborhood Coalition for Social Justice invitations you to hitch us to discover the theme of “Telling West Virginia’s Tales and Desires” throughout our Seventeenth Annual Martin Luther King, Jr., Day Celebration on Monday, January 16, 2023, at 2:00 p.m. Important Avenue Morgantown co-sponsors this family-friendly occasion, whereas the Metropolis of Morgantown offers monetary assist.
We’re happy this 12 months to be working once more with the West Virginia College Osher Lifelong Studying Institute (OLLI) to offer this program by way of OLLI’s Zoom and Fb Stay platforms. To make use of Zoom, you could pre-register! https://olliatwvu.wufoo.com/kinds/z17w9uy41k7ccrd/to attend by way of Zoom. No registration is required to look at the presentation on Fb. To view the presentation by way of Fb Stay, on the day of the occasion go to the OLLI web page at https://www.fb.com/olliatwvu, and the stream ought to seem on the prime of the OLLI web page.
Morgantown Mayor Jenny Selin will welcome everybody on behalf of the Metropolis. Our program will embody music by Osage resident Al Anderson, Morgantown musician Chris Haddox, and the WVU Neighborhood Choir. The Morgantown/Kingwood Department of the NAACP has invited Dr. Joseph Jones, WVU Reed Faculty of Media visiting assistant professor, to talk on “Communities of Care: West Virginia and a Civic Identification for the twenty first Century.” Dr. Jones asks what it means to be a great citizen in our present age. Drawing on the usually missed later works of Martin Luther King Jr., in addition to West Virginia historical past, Dr. Jones exhibits how being a citizen means far more than voting. It additionally means paying attention to each other and collectively caring concerning the distinctive wants every of us requires. Acceptable for ages 3-103, this transient presentation seeks to ahead conversations on what it means to dwell a top quality life nourished by group.
To characteristic Monongalia County, Al Anderson, former Morgantown Mayor Charlene Marshall, and Sarah Little will likely be talking with Jeremy Thomas about rising up in Osage. Jeremy may also learn Relying on Katherine about NASA “Hidden Determine” and mathematician Katherine Johnson, who attended WVU and taught at Monongalia Excessive Faculty.
For extra info on the Neighborhood Coalition for Social Justice, please go to www.ccsjwv.org or electronic mail ccsjwv@gmail.com.
