Each year, the University of Michigan hosts a symposium in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. It's a day that the University sets aside to reflect on his work - and the work still going on around us. Martin Luther King Jr. Day gives students, staff, faculty, departments and units a chance to express themselves and they way they choose to reflect upon the important work that Martin Luther King laid out for his generation and ours.
The University of Michigan Library is co-sponsoring two events: a screening of Fordson (today) and Step Afrika Dance Performance (January 19).
The Detroit Center hosted an event as well, proving that the symposium can include and bring together various communities.
It's days like today - when class and some work are canceled - that I reflect on what is really important in our world and at the University of Michigan. It's a day to stop and consider how my future career should work towards goals of equality and the riddance of oppression. It shouldn't take a day to help me remember that those goals underlie what I want to work toward, but it's a great day to do this with others from the campus and the community.
May your MLK Jr. Day bring reflection and contemplation - in whatever way that means to you.
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