MLK Commemoration Events

As part of the university's Martin Luther King, Jr. commemoration, the Chapel is a co-sponsor of the concert “Sounds of Justice & Inclusion” on January 14, at 8:00 p.m. in Reynolds Auditorium; the program features performances by John Brown’s Little Big Band, Durham Symphony Orchestra, three-time Grammy-winning jazz singer Dee Dee Bridgewater, 100 Men in Black Chorus, and actor and narrator Keith Snipes (buy tickets). During the Chapel’s 11:00 a.m. worship service Sunday, January 15, the guest preacher will be the Rev. Dr. Richard Lischer, the James T. and Alice Mead Cleland Professor Emeritus in the Divinity School and author of “The Preacher King: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Word That Moved America.” And at 3:00 p.m. on the same day, the Chapel will host a King commemoration ceremony that features a keynote address by Phil Freelon, architect of record and design team leader of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History & Culture. Read more.