Commemorating Martin Luther King Day in 2022

Dr. Martin Luther King's Family is calling on folks to get involved in passing voting rights as a way to celebrate the day.

Here are articles about that in The Washington Post, CNN, Axios/Yahoo News

and if you want inspiration, in addition to Dr. King's own words, as interpreted by our colleagues and friends, check out this interview with the late great John Lewis.
(And here's where you can see the movie "Good Trouble")

So we're re-releasing our 2021 MLK JR Day Video Project

Thank you once again to all the artists and community members who participated, and made this dream come true by sharing your favorite quotes and excerpts of speeches, sermons, and letters, as well as songs of the civil rights movement.
Thank you for being part of the call to continue his work and celebrate his legacy.

We hope that everyone who sees this video is as inspired as we were by making it!

credits are below - along with links to 

Extra special thanks to friends and colleagues Dawn M Ellis and Shanda Williams for collaborating with Artistic Directors Kim Bent and Kathleen Keenan to grow the germ of an idea into this video project.

(Video editing by LNT Producing Artistic Director Kathleen Keenan)
We hope it inspires you to do a little reflecting on, and determining what actions you can take to bring more light, hope, justice, and love to the world. 
And we are so grateful to everyone who made this project possible!

 

Our thanks to our collaborators:
Contemporary Dance & Fitness Studio, Lisa Gaye Dixon, Dawn Ellis, Jessica Goodlin, Christine Harris, Mara Iverson, Kathy Johnson, Kathleen Keenan, Micheal Lowe, Moving Light Dance, Ginger Nickerson, Taryn Noelle, Abby Paige, Brandy Perez, Caleb Probst, Isadora Snapp, Shaun Stephens, Meredith Watson, Carolyn Wesley, Shanda Williams

Quotes and recitations from:

11th Convention of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, August 16, 1967
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
From a 1968 "Conversation with Martin Luther King," originally published in "Conservative Judaism," collected in "A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr.," edited by James M. Washington, (Harper Collins, New York: 1986), p 661.
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
Our God Goes Marching On (How Long Not Long)
I’ve Been To The Mountaintop
Death to Evil on the Seashore
What’s Your Life’s Blueprint? 
Songs: Oh, Freedom by Shirley Verrett,  This Little Light Of Mine, Lift Up Your Voice and Sing, Amazing Grace
Additional underscoring Erik Walls, guitar, Sam Tolbert, piano, We Shall Overcome

Want to Know More?
Here's a great "all in one" place for inspirational quotes: https://www.keepinspiring.me/martin-luther-king-jr-quotes/ ids a good resource
Want to read Dr King’s Speeches/Letters? 
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/our-god-marching
https://www.crmvet.org/docs/otheram.htm
https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkivebeentothemountaintop.htm
https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkatimetobreaksilence.htm
http://okra.stanford.edu/transcription/document_images/Vol03Scans/256_17-May-1956_The%20Death%20of%20Evil%20upon%20the%20Seashore.pdf
https://www.csuchico.edu/iege/_assets/documents/susi-letter-from-birmingham-jail.pdf