The 2010 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Celebration

THE 2010 DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. HOLIDAY CELEBRATION
30TH ANNUAL MARTIN LUTHER KING NOON ECUMENICAL OBSERVANCE
Monday, January 18, 2010, 12:00 PM
RALEIGH MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM
RALEIGH, NC
" We may have all come on different ships ... but we're in the same boat now" - Martin Luther King, Jr. - Oct. 13, 1965

PRESIDING OFFICER

Dr. Dorothy Cowser Yancy, President
Shaw University
Raleigh, North Carolina
(Confirmed)

THE CALL TO WORSHIP

The Reverend Dr. Nancy E. Petty, Pastor
Pullen Memorial Baptist Church
Raleigh, North Carolina
(Confirmed)

INVOCATION

The Reverend Dr. Joe L. Stevenson Pastor
Macedonia New Life Church
Raleigh, North Carolina
(Confirmed)

ANTHEM (All Stand Please)

Directed By: Dr. Lonieta Cornwall, Director
Shaw University Choir
Raleigh, North Carolina
(Confirmed)

THE WELCOME

The Honorable James P. West
Mayor Pro Temporo
City Of Raleigh
(Confirmed)

THE LITANY

The Reverend Dr. Earl C. Johnson, Pastor
Martin Street Baptist Church
Raleigh, North Carolina
(Confirmed)

MUSICAL SELECTION

Shaw University Gospel Choir
Shaw University
Raleigh, North Carolina
(Confirmed)

COMMUNITY RALLY CRY

Mr. Jeffrey Mafumbo Smith, Public Information Director
Project Ricochet
Raleigh, North Carolina
(Confirmed)

FOR OUR SCHOOLS ...FOR OUR COMMUNITY

The Honorable Lindy Brown, Member,
Wake County Board Of Commissioners
(Confirmed)

ONE COMMUNITY .... ONE DREAM

The Honorable Daniel T. Blue, Jr.
North Carolina General Assembly Senate
Introduced 1987 N.C. Martin Luther King Holiday Bill
(Confirmed)

SPECIAL PRESENTATION

Mr. Bruce E. Lightner
Founder & Chairman
Raleigh Martin Luther King Committee, Inc.
(Confirmed)

INTRODUCTION OF CHILDREN'S CHOIR

Ms. Renee McCoy, Public Affairs Director
N.C. Department Of Health & Human Services
Raleigh, North Carolina
(Confirmed)

MUSICAL SELECTIONS

The Nationally Acclaimed & Award Winning
Martin Luther King, Jr. All-Children's Choir
Directed By: Mr. Randolph Shepard
Raleigh, North Carolina
(Confirmed)

REMARKS & INTRODUCTION OF KEYNOTE SPEAKER

The Rev. Dr. David C. Forbes, Sr., Pastor
Christian Faith Baptist Church
1960 Shaw University Student SNCC Founder
Raleigh, North Carolina
(Confirmed)

SPECIAL KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Dr. Bernard LaFayette, Jr., Pastor Emeritus
Progressive Baptist Church, Nashville, Tennessee
Founder, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Founder, Martin Luther King Nonviolence Traning Institute
Atlanta, Georgia
(Confirmed)

THE BENEDICTION & GO FORTH

The Reverend Frank T. White, Sr, Pastor
Anatioch Bible Fellowship Church
President, Raleigh Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance
(Confirmed)

Bernard LaFayette, Jr. has been a Civil Rights Movement activist, minister, educator, lecturer, and is an national authority on the strategy on nonviolent social change. He co-founded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1960. He was a leader of the Nashville Movement, 1960 and on the Freedom Rides, 1961 and the 1965 Selma Movement. He directed the Alabama Voter Registration Project in 1962, and he was appointed National Program Administrator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and National Coordinator of the 1968 Poor Peoples� Campaign by Martin Luther King, Jr. In addition, Dr. LaFayette has served as Director of Peace and Justice in Latin America; Chairperson of the Consortium on Peace Research, Education and Development; Director of the PUSH Excel Institute; and minister of the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Tuskegee, Alabama.

An ordained minister, Dr. LaFayette earned his B.A. from the American Baptist Theological Seminary in Nashville, Tennessee, and his Ed.M. and Ed.D from Harvard University. He has served on the faculties of Columbia Theological Seminary in Atlanta and Alabama State University in Montgomery, where he was Dean of the Graduate School; he also was principal of Tuskegee Institute High School in Tuskegee, Alabama and a teaching fellow at Harvard University.

His publications include the Curriculum and Training Manual for the Martin Luther King, Jr., Nonviolent Community Leadership Training Program, his doctoral thesis, Pedagogy for Peace and Nonviolence, and Campus Ministries and Social Change in the �60�s (Duke Divinity Review) and The Leaders Manual: A Structured Guide and Introduction to Kingian Nonviolence with David Jehnsen. Bernard LaFayette has traveled extensively to many countries as a lecturer and consultant on peace and nonviolence.

Dr. LaFayette is a former President of the American Baptist College of ABT Seminary in Nashville, Tennessee; Scholar in Residence at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta, Georgia; and Pastor emeritus of the Progressive Baptist Church in Nashville, Tennessee.

He is the Founder and National President of God-Parents Clubs, Inc., a national community based program aimed at preventing the systematic incarceration of young Black youth; a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, and founder of the Association For Kingian Nonviolence, Education and Training Works.

Dr. LaFayette is currently a Distinguished-Scholar-in-Residence and Director of the Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies at the University of Rhode Island. He is the chairperson for the International Nonviolence Executive Planning Board. He has been re-appointed by Rhode Island Governor Donald Carcieri as the chairman for the Rhode Island Select Commission on Race and Police-Community Relations. A native of Tampa, Florida, Dr. LaFayette is married to the former Kate Bulls and now resides in Atlanta, Georgia.


THE 2010 DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. HOLIDAY CELEBRATION 30TH ANNUAL MARTIN LUTHER KING NOON ECUMENICAL OBSERVANCE Monday, January 18, 2010, 12:00 PM RALEIGH MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM RALEIGH, NC " We may have all come on different ships ... but we're in the same boat now" - Martin Luther King, Jr. - Oct. 13, 1965
PRESIDING OFFICER			Dr. Dorothy Cowser Yancy, President Shaw University Raleigh, North Carolina (Confirmed)
THE CALL TO WORSHIP			The Reverend Dr. Nancy E. Petty, Pastor Pullen Memorial Baptist Church Raleigh, North Carolina (Confirmed)
INVOCATION			The Reverend Dr. Joe L. Stevenson Pastor Macedonia New Life Church Raleigh, North Carolina (Confirmed)
ANTHEM (All Stand Please)			Directed By: Dr. Lonieta Cornwall, Director Shaw University Choir Raleigh, North Carolina (Confirmed)
THE WELCOME			The Honorable James P. West Mayor Pro Temporo City Of Raleigh (Confirmed)
THE LITANY			The Reverend Dr. Earl C. Johnson, Pastor Martin Street Baptist Church Raleigh, North Carolina (Confirmed)
MUSICAL SELECTION			Shaw University Gospel Choir Shaw University Raleigh, North Carolina (Confirmed)
COMMUNITY RALLY CRY			Mr. Jeffrey Mafumbo Smith, Public Information Director Project Ricochet Raleigh, North Carolina (Confirmed)
FOR OUR SCHOOLS ...FOR OUR COMMUNITY			The Honorable Lindy Brown, Member, Wake County Board Of Commissioners (Confirmed)
ONE COMMUNITY .... ONE DREAM			The Honorable Daniel T. Blue, Jr. North Carolina General Assembly Senate Introduced 1987 N.C. Martin Luther King Holiday Bill (Confirmed)
SPECIAL PRESENTATION			Mr. Bruce E. Lightner Founder & Chairman Raleigh Martin Luther King Committee, Inc. (Confirmed)
INTRODUCTION OF CHILDREN'S CHOIR			Ms. Renee McCoy, Public Affairs Director N.C. Department Of Health & Human Services Raleigh, North Carolina (Confirmed)
MUSICAL SELECTIONS			The Nationally Acclaimed & Award Winning Martin Luther King, Jr. All-Children's Choir Directed By: Mr. Randolph Shepard Raleigh, North Carolina (Confirmed)
REMARKS & INTRODUCTION OF KEYNOTE SPEAKER			The Rev. Dr. David C. Forbes, Sr., Pastor Christian Faith Baptist Church 1960 Shaw University Student SNCC Founder Raleigh, North Carolina (Confirmed)
SPECIAL KEYNOTE ADDRESS			Dr. Bernard LaFayette, Jr., Pastor Emeritus Progressive Baptist Church, Nashville, Tennessee Founder, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Founder, Martin Luther King Nonviolence Traning Institute Atlanta, Georgia (Confirmed)
THE BENEDICTION & GO FORTH			The Reverend Frank T. White, Sr, Pastor Anatioch Bible Fellowship Church President, Raleigh Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance (Confirmed)

Bernard LaFayette, Jr. has been a Civil Rights Movement activist, minister, educator, lecturer, and is an national authority on the strategy on nonviolent social change. He co-founded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1960. He was a leader of the Nashville Movement, 1960 and on the Freedom Rides, 1961 and the 1965 Selma Movement. He directed the Alabama Voter Registration Project in 1962, and he was appointed National Program Administrator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and National Coordinator of the 1968 Poor Peoples� Campaign by Martin Luther King, Jr. In addition, Dr. LaFayette has served as Director of Peace and Justice in Latin America; Chairperson of the Consortium on Peace Research, Education and Development; Director of the PUSH Excel Institute; and minister of the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Tuskegee, Alabama. An ordained minister, Dr. LaFayette earned his B.A. from the American Baptist Theological Seminary in Nashville, Tennessee, and his Ed.M. and Ed.D from Harvard University. He has served on the faculties of Columbia Theological Seminary in Atlanta and Alabama State University in Montgomery, where he was Dean of the Graduate School; he also was principal of Tuskegee Institute High School in Tuskegee, Alabama and a teaching fellow at Harvard University. His publications include the Curriculum and Training Manual for the Martin Luther King, Jr., Nonviolent Community Leadership Training Program, his doctoral thesis, Pedagogy for Peace and Nonviolence, and Campus Ministries and Social Change in the �60�s (Duke Divinity Review) and The Leaders Manual: A Structured Guide and Introduction to Kingian Nonviolence with David Jehnsen. Bernard LaFayette has traveled extensively to many countries as a lecturer and consultant on peace and nonviolence. Dr. LaFayette is a former President of the American Baptist College of ABT Seminary in Nashville, Tennessee; Scholar in Residence at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta, Georgia; and Pastor emeritus of the Progressive Baptist Church in Nashville, Tennessee. He is the Founder and National President of God-Parents Clubs, Inc., a national community based program aimed at preventing the systematic incarceration of young Black youth; a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, and founder of the Association For Kingian Nonviolence, Education and Training Works. Dr. LaFayette is currently a Distinguished-Scholar-in-Residence and Director of the Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies at the University of Rhode Island. He is the chairperson for the International Nonviolence Executive Planning Board. He has been re-appointed by Rhode Island Governor Donald Carcieri as the chairman for the Rhode Island Select Commission on Race and Police-Community Relations. A native of Tampa, Florida, Dr. LaFayette is married to the former Kate Bulls and now resides in Atlanta, Georgia.