If you're still looking for a way to celebrate Martin Luther King's legacy today, head to the Folger for a poetry/speech reading and open mike event hosted by Donnajean Ward, the Folger Consort Manager, and Teri Cross Davis, Folger's poetry coordinator. The event is free, and runs from 2 to 5 tomorrow, Monday, January 21.
When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!
Martin Luther King, Jr.
August 28, 1963
Folger Shakespeare Library
201 East Capital Street, NE
Washington, DC 20003
(202) 544-4600
Thanks for the shout out! This was our second year and it just gets better and more inspiring every time. Mark your calendar for 2009
Posted by: Donnajean | January 22, 2008 at 09:35 AM