The community is invited to attend the following events at Highline College.
MLK Week 2017: Fear, Falsehood & Freedom
10-11:30 a.m., Jan. 17
Event description: In times of uncertainty, it is often difficult to find hope. How do we remain strong as a community during times of chaos? Dr. Maxine Mimms will be providing a dialogue about where we are as a country and how we can move forward as new leaders in our communities. This event takes place in building 7.
Keynote Reception
12-1 p.m., Jan. 17
Event description: Join the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Planning Committee as they celebrate the kickoff of MLK Week 2017 and honor the legacy of Dr. Maxine Mimms’s vocation in Building 8, the Mt. Constance room.
LGBTQIA Safezones
1- 3 p.m., Jan. 17
Event description: Learn more about the queer community and build skills to use in our campus community in building 2.
You Are My Other Me
10-11:30 a.m., Jan. 18
Event description: Join Luis Ortega, founder of Storytellers For Change, as he shares his journey as a undocumented immigrant with poems, humor, resilience, and, ultimately, in an effort to illustrate what Dr. King described on his letter from Birmingham as the “inescapable network of mutuality” that exists between human beings. This event takes place in building 7.
Mothering The Movement
1:30-3 p.m., Jan. 18
Event description: This presentation examines the active involvement of black women during the Black Freedom Movement throughout the 20th century. In particular, the presentation highlights black women’s integral roles and leadership and explores how they were both silenced and sidelined while sustaining the movement. Dr. Derrick Brooms is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Louisville. This event takes place in building 7.
Generation Return
10-11:30 a.m., 19
Event description: Artist, Writer, and Global Agitator Anida Yoeu Ali will present and discuss her works and ideas about contemporary justice and its residual effects on the Cambodian American experience. Anida Yoeu Ali is actively engaged in international dialogues, community activism, and artistic resistance to multiple sites of oppression. She upholds the belief that art is a critical tool for individual and societal transformation. This event takes place in building 7.
A Conversation On Maintaining Your Faith in Social Justice Activism
1:30-3 p.m., Jan. 19
Event description: Faith communities often play vital roles in the struggle for freedom, however the sacrifices made by activists go regularly unnoticed. Join our panelists: Rev. Lavern Hall, Rev. Harriet Walden, Imam Hussam Rabi, and Natasha Burrowes in a conversation about faith, healing, and activism. The event takes place in building 7.
Black Education Matters
9-10:30 a.m., Jan. 20
Event description: Join Jesse Hagopian, author, history teacher, and Black Student Union Co-Advisor at Garfield High School, as he draw lessons from Martin Luther King, Jr. and the great social movements of the 1960s and 70s with the aim of transforming the education system and the broader society to resist fear and falsehood and struggle for freedom. This event takes place in building 7.
First Friday Leadership Institute
2-4 p.m., Jan. 20
Event description: In this workshop, facilitated by Natasha Burrowes, we will explore the wisdom of Dr. King’s book “Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?” We’ll reflect on what it means for our generation experiencing our own historical and cultural moment, and what concepts like love, truth, and freedom mean for ourselves, our community, and explore effective ways to usher those values into an uncertain future as leaders. This event takes place in building 8 in the Mr. Constance room.
Highline College is located at 2400 S. 240th St. in Des Moines.
