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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