Following a long-standing tradition, Highline Community College will host a series of events to commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. from Tuesday, Jan. 10 to Friday, Jan. 20.
Here’s a list of vents from Highline College. For more information, visit http://studentprograms.highline.edu/mlkweek.php

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Week
"50 years of Resistance: Racism, Materialism, and Militarism Then and Now"

Tuesday, January 17
Aaron Dixon
9-9:50am Lecture and Q&A
Highline Student Union, Bldg. 8-Mt. Constance Room
As an adolescent, Aaron Dixon marched with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to end housing discrimination in Seattle, was one of the first volunteers to participate in the busing program to integrate schools and was Captain of the Seattle Chapter Black Panther Party. Dixon also ran for Senate in the November 2006 Washington State elections and has been an activist in the Seattle Area for many years.
http://depts.washington.edu/civilr/aaron_dixon.htm

Got My Mind Made Up: Women of the Black Freedom Movement, 1940-1975
Lecture by Dr. Derrick Brooms, Prairie State College
10-10:50am
Building 7
In spite of their highly valuable roles in the Black freedom movement, the great majority of Black women remain as invisible, unsung heroes and leaders. Framed by theoretical understandings of Black Feminist Thought, this presentation will discuss the integral role of Black women in the modern Black freedom movement. Dr. Derrick Brooms is the Assistant Professor of Sociology at Prairie State College located in Illinois.

MLK Film Series: Un Poquito de Tanta Verdad (A Little Bit of So Much Truth)
2-4pm
Highline Student Union, Bldg. 8-310, Leadership Resource Room
In the summer of 2006, a broad-based, non-violent, popular uprising exploded in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. Some compared it to the Paris Commune, while others called it the first Latin American revolution of the 21st century. But it was the people’s use of the media that truly made history in Oaxaca.
http://www.jillfreidberg.com/a-little-bit-of-so-much-truth-trailer.html

Wednesday, January 18
Rev. Samuel Billy Kyles
10-10:50am Lecture, 11-11:30 Q&A
Building 7
A longtime leader in the civil rights movement, Kyles has been pastor of the Monumental Baptist Church in Memphis, Tennessee since 1959. After Memphis sanitation workers went on strike in February 1968 due to low wages and inhumane working conditions, Kyles helped to form and lead the effort to gain community support for the striking workers. Their success resulted in Dr. King coming to Memphis and leading a major march that ended uncharacteristically in violence. The last hour of Dr. King's life was spent with Kyles and Rev. Ralph Abernathy in his room at the Lorraine Motel. Rev. Abernathy has since passed on, leaving Kyles as the only living person that actually spent the last hour of Dr. King's life with him.
http://www.visionaryproject.org/kylessamuel/

Emerging Leaders Luncheon with Rev. Samuel Billy Kyles
12-1:30pm
(Please contact nburrowe@highline.edu for more information)

MLK Film Series: Soundtrack for a Revolution
2-4pm
Highline Student Union, Bldg. 8-310, Leadership Resource Room
SOUNDTRACK FOR A REVOLUTION tells the story of the American civil rights movement through its powerful music -the freedom songs protesters sang on picket lines, in mass meetings, in paddy wagons, and in jail cells as they fought for justice and equality
http://www.soundtrackforarevolutionfilm.com/Home.html

Thursday, January 19
Militarism: A Veteran’s Voice
A panel discussion facilitated by Bob Baugher, Psychology Department
10-10:50am
Building 7
This panel will explore the human experience and the politics of war from the perspectives of veterans. The panel will feature Highline students who have served in wars that have taken place in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan.

MLK Film Series: Restrepo
2-4pm
Highline Student Union, Bldg. 8-310, Leadership Resource Room
RESTREPO is a feature-length documentary that chronicles the deployment of a platoon of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley. The movie focuses on a remote 15-man outpost, "Restrepo," named after a platoon medic who was killed in action. It was considered one of the most dangerous postings in the U.S. military.
http://restrepothemovie.com/story/

Friday, January 20
Artists Rising: A MLK spoken word event
10am-12pm, 10-10:50am: Spoken word performances, 11-12pm: Poetry writing workshop facilitated by Aaron Reader
Building 7
Featuring local poets and student poets, this event will honor 50 years of resistance by exploring the giant triplets of racism, militarism and materialism that Dr. King spoke to in his 1967 speech, Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence. Workshop will be facilitated by Aaron Reader, local spoken word poet.
Co-sponsored by Freshest Roots, http://freshestroots.com/

MLK Film Series: The One Percent
Sponsored by Whites on White and Movie Fridays
12:30pm-2:30pm
Building 7
This 80-minute documentary focuses on the growing "wealth gap" in America, as seen through the eyes of filmmaker Jamie Johnson, a 27-year-old heir to the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical fortune. Johnson, who cut his film teeth at NYU and made the Emmy®-nominated 2003 HBO documentary Born Rich, here sets his sights on exploring the political, moral and emotional rationale that enables a tiny percentage of Americans - the one percent - to control nearly half the wealth of the entire United States. http://www.theonepercentdocumentary.com/