Asheville events marking MLK Day start Thursday; annual breakfast speaker on Saturday is Donna Brazile

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There are a ton of local events to mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday. Those events include a peace march and an annual breakfast. Here’s a list. Here’s more on the Saturday event, from the Asheville Citizen-Times:

The Martin Luther King Jr. Association of Asheville & Buncombe County will host its 30th annual Prayer Breakfast honoring the civil rights leader on what would have been Dr. King’s 82nd birthday.

The breakfast will be the highlight of a series of events from Jan. 11-17.

The keynote speaker for the 2011 breakfast will be political activist, educator, and writer Donna Brazile.

A native of New Orleans, Brazile is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University and author of the best-selling memoir “Cooking with Grease: Stirring the Pots in American Politics.”

She is also a syndicated columnist for Ms. Magazine and O, the Oprah Magazine, a columnist for and an on-air contributor to CNN and ABC, and Vice Chair of Voter Registration and Participation at the Democratic National Committee.

The breakfast begins at 8:30 a.m. and includes music by the Martin Luther King Celebration Choir, directed by Alaysia Hachett and DaTrian S. Johnson.

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Dad January 13, 2011 - 2:46 pm

If she married the President she would be, Donna Obama or if he took her name he would be Barack Brazil.

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