“WHOSE DREAM IS IT ANYWAY?” MLK CAMPUS-WIDE CELEBRATION
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS JANUARY 19, 2015
MLK DAY CELEBRATION 2015 Schedule of Events 8:30am Community Breakfast [Emerson Suites] 9:00am Morning Adress by Dr. Derek Adams on “Whose Dream Is It Anyways” [Emerson Suites] 10:00am Educational Sessions [Campus Center] 11:30am City of Ithaca Community Celebration [Beverly J Martin Elementary School]* 12:00pm Grab ‘n’ Go Lunchtime Film Emmy Award Winning “All That Remains” by Crystal Kayiza ‘15 [Textor 102] 2:00pm Educational Sessions [Campus Center] 4:00pm MLK Celebration Event [Emerson Suites] 7:30pm School of Music Concert [Ford Hall, Whalen Center] Saturday, January 24 MLK Day of Service [9:00am-4:00pm]** *Transportation will not be provided **Please pre-register at ithaca.edu/osema as spots are limited and open to IC students
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9:00AM - “WHOSE DREAM IS IT ANYWAY” Dr. Derek Adams Assistant Professor, Department of English Speciality: African American Literature
10:00AM - EDUCATIONAL SESSIONS Clark Lounge BEYOND DREAMING: AND WHAT IF BLACK LIVES DON’T MATTER? Dr. Lillian-Yvonne Bertram Predoctoral Diversity Fellow, Writing
Taughannock FROM MOVEMENTS TO MONUMENTS: HOW Falls Room DESIGN CREATES STRUCTURES OF CHANGE Aaron Lipford, ‘2015 MLK Scholar,Biochemistry
Klingenstein MEET ME AT EQUALITY: THE Lounge PEOPLE’S MARCH ON WASHINGTON Dr. James Rada
Professor of Journalism
11:30AM - CITY OF ITHACA COMMUNITY CELEBRATION
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“POWER” BY AUDREY LORDE “The difference between poetry and rhetoric is being ready to kill yourself instead of your children. I am trapped on a desert of raw gunshot wounds and a dead child dragging his shattered black face off the edge of my sleep blood from his punctured cheeks and shoulders is the only liquid for miles and my stomach churns at the imagined taste while my mouth splits into dry lips without loyalty or reason thirsting for the wetness of his blood as it sinks into the whiteness of the desert where I am lost without imagery or magic trying to make power out of hatred and destruction trying to heal my dying son with kisses only the sun will bleach his bones quicker. A policeman who shot down a ten year old in Queens stood over the boy with his cop shoes in childish blood and a voice said “Die you little motherfucker” and there are tapes to prove it. At his trial this policeman said in his own defense “I didn’t notice the size nor nothing else only the color”. And there are tapes to prove that, too. Today that 37 year old white man with 13 years of police forcing was set free by eleven white men who said they were satisfied justice had been done and one Black Woman who said “They convinced me” meaning they had dragged her 4’10’’ black Woman’s frame over the hot coals of four centuries of white male approval until she let go the first real power she ever had and lined her own womb with cement to make a graveyard for our children. I have not been able to touch the destruction within me. But unless I learn to use the difference between poetry and rhetoric my power too will run corrupt as poisonous mold or lie limp and useless as an unconnected wire and one day I will take my teenaged plug and connect it to the nearest socket raping an 85 year old white woman who is somebody’s mother and as I beat her senseless and set a torch to her bed a greek chorus will be singing in 3/4 time “Poor thing. She never hurt a soul. What beasts they are.”
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12:00PM - GRAB ‘N’ GO LUNCHTIME FILM Emmy Award Winning “All That Remains” By Crystal Kayiza ‘15
2:00PM - EDUCATIONAL SESSIONS Clark Lounge WHERE DO WE START? RACIAL PROFILING AND CHANGE(D) RELATIONS ON CAMPUS AND IN THE COMMUNITY Moderated by Dr. Jonathan Ablard History
Taughannock EXPLORING PRIVILEGE AND Falls Room OPPRESSION The Diversity Peer Educators Klingenstein STOP THE NEW JIM CROW: WHY LOUNGE CHALLENGING MASS INCARCERATION IS CRUCIAL TO PURSUING MLK’S DREAM Dr. Paula Ioanide Center for Race, Culture and Ethnicity
Ithaca Falls CREATING INCLUSIVITY AT EVENTS ON IC’S CAMPUS The Student Organization Specialist 4
Team: Lia Munoz, Alexander Cammy, Annie Yuen, and Emily Quinn
4:00PM - MLK CELEBRATION EVENT MASTER OF CEREMONIES Mr. John Rawlins III Special Assistant to the Associate Vice Provost/Dean of Student Life at Johns Hopkins University “LIFT EVERT VOICE AND SING!” Black National Anthem Written By James Weldon Johnson Performed By Josh Dufour Second-Year MLK Scholar CIVIL RIGHTS TOUR PRESENTATION First-Year MLK Scholar Program *See Agenda On Page 6* INTRODUCTION OF KEYNOTE SPEAKER John W. Rawlins III KEYNOTE SPEAKER Ash Beckham LGBTQ Advocate and TedTalk Speaker CLOSING REMARKS John W. Rawlins III
7:30PM - SCHOOL OF MUSIC ANNUAL MLK CELEBRATION CONCERT “THE DREAM NEVER DIES” [Ford Hall, Whalen Center] This Concert will feature students, faculty and the Dorothy Cotton Jubilee Singers. A special ensemble of MLK scholars and students from the school of music will debut the Keepers of the Dream Ensemble. A ensemble formed to continue the legacy of Dr. King through music with a social justice message. 5
ORDER OF EVENTS DESCRIPTIVE WORDS -- Steph, Maya, Monique, Kiaira, Nicole, Matthew, Violet INTRODUCTION -- Carter INTRODUCTION TO MARTYRS -- Nicole EMMETT TILL -- Kiaira, Matthew, Carter VIOLA LIUZZO -- Monica, Nicole CAROLYN MCKINSTRY, REVEREND WILLIAMS, JOANNE BLAND -- Stephanie, Monique, Jonathan, Chanel MARCH ON WASHINGTON -- Mieshon HYMNS -- Marieme, Violet, Elizabeth, Stephanie, Tyler Sit Ins -- Tyler, Marieme, Violet, Stephanie, Maya, Matthew, Carter, Angela, Larissa “THEY DON’T CARE ABOUT US” -- Marieme, Stephanie, Violet, Maya, Nicole, Chanel, Kiaira POEM -- Elizabeth INTRODUCTION TO HUMAN RIGHTS -- Gabriella RACE CRIMES -- Kiaira, Matthew, Carter HATE GROUPS -- Jonathan INTERNATIONAL CONFLICTS -- Monica, Elizabeth LGBTQIA DISCRIMINATION -- Nicole, Maya, Gabriella, Violet, Stephanie WOMEN’S RIGHTS -- Angela, Marlena, Larissa PRISON SYSTEM -- Carter, Christian “WHAT CAN WE DO?” -- Tyler 6
FIRST-YEAR MLK SCHOLARS’ CIVIL RIGHTS PRESENTATION SCHOLARS FROM LEFT TO RIGHT(TOP TO BOTTOM): Marieme Foote, Jonathan Couce, Matthew McClain, Carter Jackson, Christian Conyers, Marlena Candelario Romero, Angela Pradhan, Tyler Reighn, Violet Perry, Monica Chen, Larissa Jimenez, Meishon Walker, Monique Crosby, Chanel Underwood, Maya Howard, Elizabeth Charles, Gabriella LoBue, Kiaira Anglero, Stephanie Cruz, Nicole Bond
2014 CIVIL RIGHTS TOUR Day 1 • Arrive at Atlanta, Georgia Day 2 • Birmingham Civil Rights Institute • Carolyn McKinstry - Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement • Sixteenth Street Baptist Church • Joanne Bland - Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement • Crossing Edmund Pettus Bridge
Day 3 • Civil Rights Memorial and Center • Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church • Rosa Parks Museum • Viola Luizzo Grave Marker Day 4 • MLK National Historic District • MLK Birth Home • National Center for Civil & Human Rights Day 5 • Return to Ithaca College
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SPECIAL THANKS TO: DR. ROGER RICHARDSON, Associate Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs/Dean of the First-Year Experience MS. MALINDA B. SMITH, Director for Multicultural Affairs and Coordinator of the Martin Luther King Scholar Program DR. CHRISTOPHER HOUSE, Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Studies DR. TANYA SAUNDERS, Assistant Provost, International Studies and Special Projects DR. SEAN EVERSLEY-BRADWELL, Assistant Professor, Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity DR. BELISA GONZALEZ, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology NICOLE EVERSLEY-BRADWELL, Senior Associate Director, Off Campus and International Recruitment, Admission DR. TOM ROCHON, President of Ithaca College KATIE HELLMAN, HOME and Honors Residential Learning Communities Residence Director MR. ROGER PENNYMAN, CIVIL RIGHTS TOUR GUIDE JOANNE BLAND, REVEREND WILLIAMS & CAROLYN MCKINSTRY FOOT SOLDIERS OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT MLK SCHOLAR PROGRAM FACULTY & STAFF, HOME PROGRAM, AND ITHACA COLLEGE
REMEMBER TO STAY INFORMED AND BE MINDFUL OF INJUSTICE! 8