Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Celebrations: Keynote Speaker Ilyasah Shabazz

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The Greater Burlington Multicultural Resource Center hosts keynote speaker Ilyasah Shabazz, civil rights activist, author, and third daughter of Malcolm X, delivers the 2016 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day keynote address. Ms. Shabazz is known for her memoir, Growing up X, for which she won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Nonfiction Literary Work.

At the event, the Greater Burlington Multicultural Resource Center honors this year’s recipients of the 2016 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Award: Jan Demers, Executive Director of the Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity (CVOEO), for her work helping homeless and economically disadvantaged community members; and Jay Diaz, Public Advocate for the ACLU of Vermont, for his untiring work to promote stability, access, and equal opportunity to low income Vermont children.

The Mission of the Greater Burlington Multicultural Resource Center (GBMRC) is to increase awareness and provide opportunities to celebrate, promote and support cultural diversity within our community.

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1 Saturday January 23, 2016 at 3:30 PM
2 Monday January 25, 2016 at 10:30 PM
3 Tuesday January 26, 2016 at 3:30 AM
4 Tuesday January 26, 2016 at 9:30 AM
5 Sunday January 31, 2016 at 5:00 PM
6 Thursday February 4, 2016 at 1:00 PM
7 Saturday February 6, 2016 at 6:30 PM
8 Wednesday February 10, 2016 at 2:00 PM
9 Thursday February 18, 2016 at 1:00 PM
10 Sunday March 6, 2016 at 10:20 PM
11 Monday March 7, 2016 at 3:20 AM
12 Monday March 7, 2016 at 9:20 AM

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