2011 37th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration
2011 37th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration
Theme
Excellence is a Shared Path: Working Together for Justice and the Quality of Life
Keynote
Award-winning journalist, political analyst and CNN contributor
MLK Leadership Awardees
MIT graduate student
Fiscal officer, Research Laboratory of Electronics, MIT
Personnel and Operations Administrator, Microsystems Technology Laboratory (MTL), MIT
Minority Introduction to Engineering and Science (MITES)
A rigorous six-week MIT residential academic enrichment program for promising high school seniors
Exhibit
A civil rights display is up in Lobby 10. The display is put up each year by students who took the Martin Luther King Jr. design seminar over IAP. Robert McQueen, The Tech, 2011
MLK Diversity Dinner 2011: MIT Asian Dance Team Showcase
Epitaph of Twilight
Spinnng Song
Press
The drive for diversity
March 18, 2011
MLK Leadership Awards honor three individuals, one program
February 11, 2011
King’s legacy celebrated at MIT
February 10, 2011
37th annual Martin Luther King Jr. breakfast today
February 9, 2011
Building blocks
February 8, 2011
CNN's Martin to deliver keynote address at MLK Jr. breakfast
January 31, 2011
Quotes
“Neither MIT nor my city of origin is the best indicator of my success, ability or potential…“[m]y success is attributed to the collective influence of many people who have shaped my life.”
Pierre Fuller SM '09, PhD candidate- Graduate student speaker at the 37th Annual MLK Celebration
CNN's Roland Martin, at annual MLK Jr. breakfast, says the civil rights leader’s example of personal commitment and nonviolence lives on
David L. Chandler, MIT News Office | February 10, 2011
In his keynote address at MIT’s 37th annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast Celebration on Wednesday, CNN analyst Roland Martin said that King’s spirit, idealism and commitment to personal action are alive today, as exemplified by the protests that have erupted on the streets of Egypt over the last few weeks.
“The folks in Egypt are trying nonviolence” in their bid for freedom and democracy, and in doing so are following in King's footsteps, Martin said. Emphasizing the important role that young people can play, including the many students gathered at the breakfast, Martin pointed out that it is “the young folks in Egypt driving this entire movement.” He said that this impassioned effort by the young echoes the work of King, who, when he was elected to lead the incipient civil rights movement in Montgomery, Ala., in the 1950s, was still in his twenties — as were many of the other leaders of the movement at the time. These young people, Martin said, were willing to take chances that many of their elders feared to take.