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   from the issue of January 8, 2004

     
 
Former reporter to speak at MLK program

Dorothy Butler Gilliam, a reporter who covered the civil rights movement for the Washington Post in the early 1960s, will be the keynote speaker at UNL’s ceremony marking the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday on Jan. 19.

Gilliam will speak during a 2 p.m. program that day in the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center. The program will also include a performance by the gospel choir of the Afrikan Peoples Union, a UNL student group, and presentation of the chancellor’s “Fulfilling the Dream” awards.
The Jan. 19 program will kick off a weeklong series of events that will include speakers, panel discussions, dinners, community service projects, a candlelight vigil and a live video conference, “Dialogue on Diversity,” involving UNL and the University of Alabama. More details on the events will be available in the Jan. 15 edition of the Scarlet.


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