EVENTS PLANNED FOR KING BIRTHDAY; AWARDS TO SALUTE ACCOMPLISHMENTS.Byline: City News Service Thirty years after his assassination, Martin Luther King Jr.'s quest for social justice is still a ``dream,'' according to those heading up an annual festival in his honor. ``It is important to celebrate outstanding contributions in the arena of social justice as the new millennium approaches,'' Genethia Hayes, MLK MLK Martin Luther King MLK Milk MLK Medialess License Kit Legacy Association executive vice president, said Wednesday. ``There is still a crying need to look at issues of social justice, as we see huge reversals, losing affirmative action in the state of California, for example,'' she added. The theme of the 22nd Annual King Week Festival will be ``We Still Have a Dream,'' she said. The festival will begin with a ceremony Jan. 7 in the Bradley Court at the Baldwin Hills/Crenshaw Plaza. Other events will include the Rosa Parks Center Gospel Festival, the Martin Luther King Jr. Interfaith Prayer Breakfast and a countywide art and essay contest. The festival will end Jan. 18 with a birthday dinner, honoring eight people who have ``advanced the struggle for social justice.'' DreamWorks SKG SKG Stichting Kwaliteit Gevelbouw (Dutch) SKG Spielberg, Katzenberg,and Geffen (DreamWorks Studios) SKG Thessaloniki, Greece - Thessaloniki (Airport Code) SKG Smith and Kraus Global co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg will host the event in downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood or . ``The reversals of gains made in the '60s to make good on America's promise of `justice for all' are massive and devastating dev·as·tate tr.v. dev·as·tat·ed, dev·as·tat·ing, dev·as·tates 1. To lay waste; destroy. 2. To overwhelm; confound; stun: was devastated by the rude remark. for people of color Noun 1. people of color - a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks) people of colour, colour, color race - people who are believed to belong to the same genetic stock; "some biologists doubt that there are important and the poor,'' Hayes said. ``The annual celebration ensures that the life and work of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is not forgotten. There is a need for remembrance and recommitment re·com·mit tr.v. re·com·mit·ted, re·com·mit·ting, re·com·mits 1. To commit again. 2. To refer (proposed legislation, for example) to a committee again. as long as the work of creating a just society is not a reality,'' she said. The following are the birthday dinner honorees: Alice Walker Duff, co-founder of the child development agency Crystal Stairs, will receive the Rosa Parks Award. Robert Russ, manager of community relations in the western region for Shell Oil Co., will receive the Corporate Responsibility Award for his work in developing a minority summer internship program at Shell, among other achievements. Lori Gay will receive the Economic Justice Award. Gay is president of the Los Angeles Neighborhood Housing Services Inc., a nonprofit lender, developer and neighborhood revitalization corporation. The Rev. Gardner C. Taylor Dr. Gardner Calvin Taylor (born 1918) is an influential American preacher, noted for his eloquence and deep understanding of Christian faith and theology. Taylor was a close friend and mentor to Martin Luther King Jr. of Concord Baptist Church will receive the MLK National Award. The Rev. William Smart Jr. of Phillips Temple CME CME See: Chicago Mercantile Exchange CME See Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME). Church will receive the Prophetic Witness Award. Charles J. Kim of the Korean American Coalition will receive the Drum Major Award. Peter and Linda Biehl of Orange County will receive the President's Award. The Biehls are the parents of Amy Biehl, who was stabbed and beaten to death in South Africa in 1993. ``We are honoring the Biehls because of their deep commitment to continue her work, and because they did not make her death a racial issue,'' Hayes said. |
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