Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration

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For 17 years the local Community Coalition for Social Justice has organized a celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. This year’s keynote speaker will be Dr. Joseph Jones, from the WVU Reed College of Media. In his upcoming talk, Dr. Jones asks what it means to be a good citizen in our current age. Drawing on the often overlooked later works of Martin Luther King Jr., as well as West Virginia history, Dr. Jones shows how being a citizen means much more than voting. It also means being attentive to one another and collectively caring about the unique needs each of us requires. Appropriate for ages 3-103, this brief presentation seeks to forward conversations on what it means to live a quality life nourished by community. In addition we will have music, a children's story, and memories of growing up in Osage, WV.