At 8 a.m., the Arts Consortium will hold the Martin Luther King Jr. Day Breakfast at the Hyatt Regency on Fifth Street downtown. The consortium will present its Dreamkeeper Award to Rev. Damon Lynch III and also will present the JuniorDreamkeeper and Lifetime Achievement awards. After prayers and speeches, the group will march through downtown to Music Hall for a speech by Yale University's Dr. Ezra E.H. Griffith, and a program of music by several choirs. Two 6 p.m. marches, one starting at the World Peace Bell in Newport and the other at the Community Center, will end at the Northern Kentucky Convention Center for a program of music, awards and speeches. A librarian will read stories about the Rev. Dr. King, and children can make friendship pins.
Admission is free, but registration is required.
The event features poetry, music, skits and African foods. King Jr. Commemorative Outreach Program at Children's Hospital Medical Center will hold a formal dinner at 7 p.m. at the Sharonville Convention Center. Dr. Ben Carson, director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University Hospital, will speak. The Cincinnati Enquirer , a Gannett Co. Inc. newspaper.