Jan. 19, 2025 | 4 PM

MLK Sunday Service Project
Barner-McDuffie House
4:00 PM -5:30 PM
In collaboration with Barner-McDuffie House and Hendricks Chapel the pre-week committee will be hosting a community service project in collaboration with Rise Above Poverty.

Jan. 21-24, 2025 | 11AM- 1 PM

“MLK Is…”
Schine Student Center

In collaboration with Let’s Be Engaged, the pre-week committee will be tabling for the MLK 40th Celebration. Campus community members are invited to answer what MLK’s legacy and life means to them and write their ideas on quilt squares to be used in the formation of a living art sculpture and on display at the celebration. 

Jan. 24, 2025 | 6- 8 PM

MLK Movie Night
Hendricks Noble Room
Watch the movie “Selma” in the Noble Room. Movie snacks will be served.

Celebrating African-American Composers
Feb. 23, 2025 | 4 PM

Setnor School of Music choral ensembles and student soloists celebrate Black History Month with music by Hailstork, Price, Powell, Garrett, and more.

Setnor School of Music students and faculty present a special concert highlighting solo, chamber, and choral works by African-American composers. The Hendricks Chapel Choir will perform “Praise the Lord” by Florence Price, and the Concert Choir will offer Rosephanye Powell’s setting of Langston Hughes’ text, “To Sit and Dream.” Together they will give a reprise of Marques L. A. Garrett’s “Song of Life.” The program will conclude with the combined choirs leading the audience in James Weldon Johnson and John Rosamond Johnson’s “Lift Every Voice and Sing.”