The Martin Luther King Community Development Cooperation isn't having a Martin Luther King Day parade, but it is having a big Martin Luther King Weekend. Here's the lineup sponsored by the organization:
Saturday, January 14
5K Healthy You Walk/Run
Sawmill Square Mall, Laurel
Registration starts at 7:00am. The event kicks off official at 8:00am.
Sunday, January 15
Memorial Service
Morning Star Baptist Church
The event kicks off at 6:00pm
Monday, January 16
MLK 2023 Annual Prayer/Scholarship Breakfast
Sanderson Farms Headquarters
127 Flynt Road, Laurel, MS
The event kicks off at 8:00am.
The MLK Community Development Corporation’s Annual Scholarship Banquet, which has
been conducted over the years, has been an evening of celebration and awareness that
showcased the young people and the MLK CDC’s Annual Prayer Breakfast has been a time of prayer and focusing on community togetherness. This year, the group will combine the
activities and allow the young people to be showcased during its Annual Prayer
Breakfast/Scholarship Event that will be held at 8 a.m. on , Dr. King National Holiday,
at the Sanderson Farms Headquarters on Flynt Road. Bishop Stafford J.N. Wicker will be the keynote speaker at this year’s event.
The theme for this year is “The Color of Unity.” The event will include youth presentations, speeches about unity and working together and live music and entertainment.
Throughout the years, the group has obtained prominent speakers for this important
occasion that also includes the showcasing of young talented students from within the
community. Among the previous keynote speakers for this event are Mississippi Supreme
Court Judge Leslie King, former Hattiesburg Superintendent James Bacchus and Forrest
County Justice Court Judge Gay Polk-Payton, Former Hattiesburg Mayor and state candidate Johnny Dupree and the Jefferson Davis County Justice Court Judge Ronald “Ronnie” Barnes.
This year’s speaker at the Prayer Breakfast/Scholarship Event will be the Right Reverend
Stafford J.N. Wicker, the Presiding Bishop of the Eighth Episcopal District of the African
Methodist Episcopal Church (which consists of the AME Churches in the states of Mississippi and Louisiana).
James said the MLK CDC is encouraging all residents to participate in its activities. Anyone needing more information concerning the list of events being sponsored by the MLK
CDC can contact any member of the committee or call Rev. Jerry James Sr. at 601-480-1954.
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