Yale Bulletin and Calendar

January 11, 2008|Volume 36, Number 14

Peabody to honor Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy with festival

A talk about “The Other Inconvenient Truth” will be one of the highlights of a two-day festival honoring Martin Luther King Jr., to be held at Yale’s Peabody Museum of Natural History, 170 Whitney Ave.

This is the 12th consecutive year that the museum will open its doors for a celebration of the values the civil rights leader held dear and the objectives he strove to achieve. This year’s event — “Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Legacy of Environmental and Social Justice 2008” — will take place on Sunday, Jan. 20, from noon to 4:30 p.m., and Monday, Jan. 21, from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The festival is free and open to all.

The event will feature performances and fun and educational activities for visitors of all ages and backgrounds.

For the last six years, thanks to a grant from the children of Arnold J. Alderman, the museum has presented a talk by an individual renowned in the field of environmental and social justice. This year’s featured speaker is Jerome Ringo, who has gained worldwide recognition for his efforts to include minority and low-income communities in the environmental movement.

Until recently, Ringo served as chair of the board of the National Wildlife Federation. He was the first African-American to chair in the organization’s 70-year history — in fact, the first to head the board of a major conservation organization. He is currently president of the Apollo Alliance, a young coalition of organized labor and environmental, business and civil rights leaders determined to free the United States from dependence on foreign oil.

Ringo will present the annual Arnold J. Alderman Memorial Lecture — titled “Environmental Injustice: The Other Inconvenient Truth” — at 2 p.m. on Sunday.

Other highlights of the festival will include performances by St. Luke’s Steel Band on Sunday at 3:30 p.m. and by folk, gospel and jazz duo Kim and Reggie Harris at noon on Monday. For a complete list of performances and activities, visit www.peabody.yale.edu.

“Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Legacy of Environmental and Social Justice 2008” is sponsored by Citizens Bank, the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection, and the Yale University Office of New Haven and State Affairs.

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