Today is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. To mark the occasion, the annual rally and march will take place at University of Evansville outside the Meeks Family Field House at 2:30. The march will begin right after the rally, heading down Walnut Street to S. Willow Road to Lincoln Avenue.
Activities continue after the march:
- 4:45 p.m. – Harrison Step Team
- 5 p.m. – Keynote speaker Karsonya Wise Whitehead
- 5:45 p.m. – community leadership panel
- 6:15 to 6:45 p.m. – book signing
Whitehead is the founding executive director of the Karson Institute for Race, Peace, and Social Justice and professor of communication and African and African American Studies at Loyola University Maryland.
The University of Southern Indiana will host its annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Celebration Luncheon.
The event begins at 11 a.m. in USI’s Carter Hall. Evansville Mayor Stephanie Terry will be the keynote speaker.
