More information on MKL events available via pdf from Durham

Thursday

* N.C. Central University MLK Convocation
9:45 a.m. Guest speaker will be Freddie Parker, NCCU professor of history. B.N. Duke Auditorium

* Durham County-City Martin Luther King Celebration
Noon. The Rev. J.D. Greear, pastor of The Summit Church of Durham, will deliver the keynote speech. Event is at First Presbyterian Church, 305 E. Main St.

Friday

* Filmmaker Orlando Bagwell
6 p.m. Speaker is an Emmy-award winning independent filmmaker who co-produced “Eyes on the Prize” and “Citizen King.” Richard White Lecture Hall, East Campus, Duke University

Saturday

* Eighth Annual Durham Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Parade
Noon to 2 p.m. Grand marshal is N.C. Central University Chancellor Charlie Nelms. Fayetteville Street

Sunday

* Vernon Jordan sermon
11 a.m. Vernon E. Jordan Jr., a former adviser to President Bill Clinton, will deliver the MLK Day sermon at Watts Street Baptist Church, 800 Watts St. [MORE BELOW]

* Labor leader Dolores Huerta speaks
3 p.m. Dolores Huerta, who worked alongside Cesar Chavez on behalf of farm workers, will give the keynote address in Duke Chapel, Duke University [note 3 p.m. start time]

Monday

* Martin Luther King Triangle Interfaith Prayer Breakfast
8 a.m. Sheraton Imperial Hotel, Research Triangle Park

* 5th Annual Martin Luther King Community Day of Service
Starts at 8:30 a.m., various projects throughout the Triangle. See www.unitedwaytriangle.org/mlk/

* Fourth Annual “Road to a Dream”
10:00 to 1:00 at Christ United Methodist in Southern Village. Fill goodie bags and make valentines for our troops in Afghanistan. Making no-sew fleece blankets and scarves for children and families in need.

* MLK March and Rally
Starts about 10:30am at the Haiti Heritage Center and ending at the First Presbyterian Church in Downtown Durham where there Rally will be held.

* Durham Civil Rights Workers Reunion
11:30 a.m. Speaker will be the Rev. Kenneth Ray Hammond. St. Joseph’s A.M.E. Church, 2521 Fayetteville St.

* African Children’s Choir performance
2 p.m., Page Auditorium, Duke University

* MLK March and Candlelight Vigil at Duke University
Starts at 5 p.m. at Wallace Wade Stadium. Concludes at Duke Chapel. Duke University

Tuesday

* Rabbi Alyssa Stanton speaks
6 p.m. Alyssa Stanton, the nation’s first African-American woman to be ordained a rabbi by a mainstream Jewish seminary, will speak in the Bryan Center, Duke University

Wednesday, Jan. 20

* Million Meals Service Event
5 p.m. The event, co-sponsored by Duke University, N.C. Central University and Southern High School, will package 50,000 meals to be sent overseas to crisis-burdened areas and developing countries. Southern High School

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Vernon Jordan to speak Sunday in Durham
Durham News, 13 Jan 2010

Civil rights leader Vernon Jordan, former adviser to President Bill Clinton, will talk about the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. when he delivers the MLK Day sermon at Watts Street Baptist Church on Sunday.

The church is located at 800 Watts St., and the public is invited to attend the 11 a.m. worship service.

Jordan grew up in an Atlanta public housing project. Just weeks out of law school, he joined the effort to desegregate colleges and universities and helped lead black student Charlayne Hunter through a group of whites protesting the University of Georgia’s integration policy in 1961.

Leslie Dunbar, a former Watts Street member who now lives in Washington, D.C., hired Jordan in 1963 as executive assistant of the Southern Regional Council, the civil rights organization in Atlanta that Dunbar directed. Later, as director of the council’s Voter Education Project, Jordan helped thousands of new minority voters to register and vote throughout the South.

Dunbar describes his old friend as “the most versatile man I’ve ever met or known.”