Winston-Salem (10am) A march from Mount Zion Baptist Church to the Anderson Center at Winston-Salem State University will begin at 10 a.m. Workshops to follow in the Anderson Center's Dillard Hall. Call (336) 987-0040. www.journalnow.com/news/2011/jan/17/mlk-day-march-begins-10-m-convention-center-hold-m-ar-701235/
Winston-Salem (Noon) The 31st annual observance of King's birth will be held at noon in the North Main Hall of Benton Convention Center. Clifton E. Graves Jr. will be the keynote speaker.
www.journalnow.com/news/2011/jan/17/mlk-day-march-begins-10-m-convention-center-hold-m-ar-701235/
Greensboro (11am) MLK Day Parade starts at 11am this morning. The parade will head north on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive from Florida Street. http://www.news-record.com/content/2011/01/14/article/event_calendar_for_martin_luther_king_jr_holiday
Students from Greensboro College and Bennett College will participate in various service projects today
High Point University is hosting an MLK service at 11 a.m. at Hayworth Chapel. The service is open to the public.
Dr King, a social conservative?
Dr. Alveda King, full-time Director of African American Outreach for Priests for Life and niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., said today that advice columns written by her uncle for Ebony magazine in 1957-58 reveal a man who today would be regarded as a ‘social conservative’. "In advising men and women on questions of personal behavior 50 years ago, Uncle Martin sounded no different than a conservative Christian preacher does now," said Dr. King. "He was pro-life, pro-abstinence before marriage…and based his views…on the unchanging Word of the Bible. Today, Planned Parenthood would condemn Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as part of the ‘religious right.'"
Read the entire article: http://nation.foxnews.com/martin-luther-king-jr/2011/01/17/alveda-king-mlk-would-be-modern-day-social-conservative
MLK bio: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.html
