Events
The breakfast provides a regular, informal, and congenial setting where we discuss issues with
fellow Democrats and have occasional speakers or programs. Mr. Moses Carey, currently a County Commissioner and a candidate for the NC Senate seat representing Orange and Person Counties, with be a guest.
Date:
Saturday, February 9, 2008 - 4:00am to 5:15am
Location:
Occoneechee Steak House, 378 S. Churton St., Hillsborough
Speaker: Sarah Bruce, from
The Village Project and Executive Director of the Upper Neuse River
Basin Association (other speakers TBD). Light
refreshments will be served.
Date:
Thursday, January 31, 2008 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Location:
Lake Hogan Farms Clubhouse, 101 Commons Way in Chapel Hill (from Homestead Rd., turn north onto Lake Hogan Farms Rd. and take the second right).
Not an Orange County event, but likely to be of interest to some folks: Marian Wright Edelman, president of the Children’s Defense Fund and civil rights lawyer, will be the keynote speaker at Duke University's 2008 Martin Luther King Jr. celebration.
For more information: http://news.duke.edu/2007/12/edelman.html
Date:
Sunday, January 20, 2008 - 10:00am
Location:
Duke Chapel, Duke University
I am filling up our calendar with all the major events related to Martin Luther King day that I can find. Do you know of others? Just go to http://orangepolitics.org/node/add/event to add it.
Tag your entry MLK Day and we'll have a nice collection of events at http://orangepolitics.org/tags/mlk-day.
ANNUAL MLK KEYNOTE
LECTURE: RUBY DEE
Tues. Jan. 22, 7 p.m. ** Memorial Hall
Actress and
activist Ruby Dee will deliver the keynote address at this year's 23rd annual
University-Community Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration. Her speech will be
in Memorial Hall on East Cameron Avenue 7 p.m. Tuesday,
Jan. 22. Tickets
are FREE. Seating is reserved, and tickets are limited to two per person.
They must be picked up at the Memorial Hall Box Office. For
ticket information, call (919) 843-3333.
For information about the
other activities during the week, visit
www.unc.edu/diversity/mlk.
Sponsors:
The Chancellor's Committee for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday
Celebration, Carolina Union Activities Board, Student Government, Martin
Luther King, Jr. Established Lecture Fund, Black Student Movement
and Residence Hall Association
Date:
Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 2:00pm
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