Intended Audience
19th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Prayer Celebration - Jan. 16, 2023
DARING TO ACT; RADICALLY CHANGING THE PRESENT
Breakfast opens at 6:30 a.m. in the Campus Center Great Room - $10 at the door.
Program - 8:00 a.m.
Keynote address: Chris Haley, Director, the Study of the Legacy of Slavery in Maryland at the Maryland State Archives Research Department and the Utopia Film Festival. Other speakers/performers will include Southern Maryland Mass Choir; SMCM President Tuajuanda C. Jordan; Rev. Roderick W. McClanahan, First Missionary Baptist Church; U.S. Rep. Steny Hoyer (D - 5th); SMCM Trustee Ray Wernecke; SMCM Black Student Union President Nya Payton '24; CSM student Braxton Lewis; William "BJ" Hall, president St. Mary's County NAACP; Amarillo Vert, Great Mills High School Choir; Andrea Hudson, president Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.®, Nu Zeta Omega Chapter; Rhythm Club of Spring Ridge Middle School.
Sponsors: St. Mary's College of Maryland; St. Mary's County Branch NAACP The 7025; St. Mary's County Human Relations Commission; St. Mary's County Public Schools; College of Southern Maryland; Ivy & Pearls of So. Md. Community Charities; Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.®, Nu Zeta Omega Chapter.