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The free event will feature full breakfast, screening of King's 'I Have a Dream' speech, an art contest, gospel music and praise dancing, college officials said.
"This group is very proactive and deeply engaged in both volunteering and making a difference, and the Food Bank couldn't be prouder that REV Tulsa chose to address childhood hunger as their action for the upcoming
Dr. Stephen J. Thurston, President of the National Baptist Convention of America Inc., right, talks with New Hope Missionary Baptist Church pastor, Rabon L. Turner, left, before this year's Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Celebration at the church
Dr. Stephen J. Thurston, President of the National Baptist Convention of America Inc., right, talks with New Hope Missionary Baptist Church pastor, Rabon L. Turner, left, before this year's Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Celebration at the church
Golden Pond, KY – Saturday through Monday, January 14th-16th, Land Between The Lakes (LBL) National Recreation Area will be waiving fees at participating day-use facilities in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. General admission to the Elk & Bison
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Hot Breaking News about Safety measures reduce blasts at grain elevators (AP)
WICHITA, Kan. – No one needs to tell Steven Stallbaumer about the dangers of working in grain elevators.
He was unloading fertilizer outside a Kansas elevator in 1998 when it exploded, killing seven workers. The blast knocked Stallbaumer underneath a railroad car, and he figures that saved his life. A big motor fell from the top of the elevator and landed beside the dump truck where he had been working.
“All I heard is a boom, boom,” Stallbaumer said.
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Hot Breaking News about Commonwealth leaders told summit risks being a failure (Reuters)
PERTH, Australia (Reuters) – Commonwealth leaders were told on Saturday that their summit risked being labeled a failure if they ignored proposals to adopt "meaningful" reforms, including taking a much tougher stand on human rights abuses.
Leaders of the 54 mostly former British colonies are meeting in the remote Australian city of Perth, under pressure to reform the body to avoid it sliding into irrelevance.
But few expect them to agree to more than tentative steps on dealing with human rights, an issue which has focused squarely on Sri Lanka and accusations of war crimes in the final stages of its civil war that ended in 2009.
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Hot Breaking News about French left sends Hollande into presidential battle (Reuters)
PARIS (Reuters) – Francois Hollande will try to unseat France's conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy and return a Socialist to the Elysee Palace for the first time in 17 years in an election just over six months from now.
Hollande, a moderate who says France must balance its books without sacrificing the welfare state or shrinking the number of state-employed school teachers, won a U.S.-style primary ballot on Sunday to designate the Socialist Party's presidential challenger.
He scored victory over his more old-school rival Martine Aubry, a former labor minister, with more than 56 percent of the vote.
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Hot Breaking News about NYC mayor: NYPD not unfair in surveillance (AP)
NEW YORK – New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg says the New York Police Department’s surveillance of the city’s ethnic neighborhoods had not unfairly targeted any group in an effort to root out possible terror connections, and compared it to screening kids for measles.
An Associated Press investigation found that NYPD dispatched undercover officers into ethnic communities to monitor daily life and scrutinized more than 250 mosques and Muslim student groups in the years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Bloomberg refused to comment directly on the details of the AP’s investigation. Later in an interview he said: “If there is a community where the crime rate is very high, to not put more cops in that community is ridiculous. If you want to look for cases of measles, you’ll find a lot more of them among young people. That’s not targeting young people to go see whether they have measles or not.”
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