51小黄车attends NAACP dinner; announces events for annual celebration of Martin Luther King Jr.
On January 18, 2016, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, 51小黄车students represented the University and its Office of Intercultural Student Engagement at the Maine NAACP鈥檚 annual MLK Holiday Celebration Dinner at the Holiday Inn by the Bay in Portland.
Several of Maine鈥檚 elected leaders attended and U.S. Senator King met with 51小黄车students during the dinner.
The University has planned a series of events as part of its 29th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration, which honors King鈥檚 visit to St. Francis College, the precursor to UNE鈥檚 Biddeford Campus, in May of 1964.
This year鈥檚 events series, titled 鈥淟iving With Our Conscience,鈥 was named after a phrase used by King in 1965 speech in Montgomery, Alabama: 鈥淲e must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.鈥 The events address the university鈥檚 ongoing commitment to social justice.
Two keynote events, one on each of the two Maine campuses, will be featured as part of the celebration. Charlene Carruthers, M.S.W., national director of the Black Youth Project 100, an activist member-led organization of black 18-35 year-olds dedicated to creating justice and freedom for all black people, will deliver a talk, 鈥#SayHerName: Stories and Strategies to end Mass Criminalization,鈥 on the Biddeford Campus on January 27 at 12 p.m. in the Campus Center Multipurpose Rooms.
Josepha Campinha-Bacote, Ph.D., M.A.R., PMHCNS-BC, CTN-A, FAAN, president of Transcultural C.A.R.E. Associates, will address the Portland Campus on February 3 at 12 p.m. in the WCHP Lecture Hall with a discussion of 鈥淐ultural Competence in Healthcare Delivery: A Culturally-Conscious Model of Patient Care.鈥
Other events that will be held as part of the Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration include a 鈥淩eview of Civil Rights Pilgrimage Trips鈥 by Jennifer DeBurro, assistant dean of students for residence life, and Maria Goodwin, coordinator of the first-year experience, on January 26 in the St. Francis Room on the Biddeford Campus as well as a screening of the film Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin, sponsored by the UNitEd and Alliance student organizations, to be held later than evening at 6 p.m. in the same location.
In addition, UNE鈥檚 Biddeford Campus Center will display art by students enrolled in the Advanced Diversity Leadership Certificate program who were inspired by the Created Equal documentary series, which was produced by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
All events are free and open to the public.
