Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebrations

Vision 2009: Different Stories, Common Hopes

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, Scholar/Author & Professor, Georgetown University

Past Celebrations & Themes

Vision 2008: Civil Rights in an Age of Civil Wrongs

Keynote Speaker: Patricia Williams, Writer & Professor, Columbia Law School

Vision 2007: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and His Vision of Multicultural Democracy

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Manning Marable, Professor of History, Political Science & Policy, Columbia University

Vision 2006: Healthy People, Healthy Communities

Keynote Speaker: Dr. M. Joycelyn Elders, Professor of Public Health, University of Arkansas

Vision 2005: What's Become of the Dream?

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Ella L.J. Edmondson Bell, Associate Professor of Business Administration, Amoes Tuck School of Business Administration, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire

Vision 2004: Looking Back and Reaching Forward

Keynote Speaker: Rev. Horace L. Sheffield, III, Pastor of New Galilee Missionary Baptists Church, Detroit, MI

Vision 2003: Celebrating Our Differences

Keynote Speaker: Patricia Russell-McCloud, J.D., Professional Orator & Author, Atlanta, GA