“What Are YOU Doing for Others” – The 14^th Annual MLK Unity Celebration

Sojourner’s Truth Staff

This year’s annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Unity Celebration was held at The University of Toledo on Monday at Savage Arena and, as usual, pomp and circumstance, remarks by dignitaries, performances by local groups and the Parade of Nations held the audience’s attention.

Not so usual was the act of civil disobedience staged by members of the Community of Solidarity Response Networks of Toledo in response to the recent killings of unarmed black males by law enforcement officials in Missouri, New York and Ohio.

The master and mistress of ceremony for this year’s event were Jerry Anderson of WTOL-11 and Rhonda Sewell of the Toledo Lucas County Public Library.
 

AKA volunteers at Unity Celebration

Students from the Toledo School for the Afro-Caribbean Dance & Drum Ensemble performed before the Toledo Fire and Police Departments presented colors.

Nagi G. Naganathan, interim president of UT welcomed the audience and Toledo Mayor Michael Collins and Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur offered remarks for the audience of about 2,000.

It was in-between the remarks by the two elected officials that the program was interrupted briefly by the Community of Solidarity Response Networks who march in holding their hands up, carrying signs saying “Black Lives Matter” and wearing buttons saying “End Police Impunity Now.”

Shanda Gore, Ed.D, chief diversity officer and associate vice president for Equity, Diversity and Community Engagement for UT, presented the MLK Scholarship Award.

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