Martin Luther King Jr. Community Birthday Celebration
21 Jan 2019
6:00 PM
Ames Middle School, 3915 Mortensen Road
Celebrate with song, story and birthday cake. An Ames tradition! Join us at 6:00 for cake and music, followed by an hour-long program beginning at 6:30pm. Part of the Martin Luther King Jr. Legacy Series
Other events featured in the 2019 Martin Luther King Jr. Legacy Series include:
[b][url=https://www.lectures.iastate.edu/lecture/46566] Let Freedom Ring - Carillon Concert[/url][/b]
Wednesday, January 16, 11:50 am, Central Campus
A carillon concert in honor of Dr. King. Tin-Shi Tam, carillonneur.
[b][url=https://www.lectures.iastate.edu/lecture/46560]Martin Luther King Jr. Legacy Convocation[/url][/b]
Thursday, January 24, 7:00 pm, Sun Room, Memorial Union
Join a discussion with keynote speaker Ron Stallworth, whose extraordinary story of being a black detective who infiltrates the Ku Klux Klan is the subject of Spike Lee’s recent movie BlacKkKlansman.
[b][url=https://www.lectures.iastate.edu/lecture/45948]The Power of Knowing Your Purpose - Brittany Packet [/url][/b]
Monday, January 28, 7:00 pm, Great Hall, Memorial Union
Brittany Packnett is a leader at the intersection of culture and justice. A former teacher, non-profit executive director, and Fellow at Harvard's Institute of Politics, she has been named one of TIME Magazine’s 12 New Faces of Black Leadership and honored at the 2018 BET Awards as "one of the fiercest activists of our time."