Note: This event is filled to capacity.

WNYC presents the sixth annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration at the Brooklyn Museum. "In MLK’s Footsteps: Education as a Civil Right" examines a civil rights battle Dr. King embraced and left for us to finish: equal education for all. Join WNYC’s Brian Lehrer and Jami Floyd, managing editor of The Global Game, for an invigorating afternoon of discussion, performance, and personal reminiscence.



Moderators:

 
• Brian Lehrer, host of WNYC’s the Brian Lehrer Show
 
• Jami Floyd, managing editor of the global game

Panelists:

 
• Cami Anderson, Superintendent of the Newark Public Schools
 
• Fredrick C. Harris, Professor of Political Science and Director of Columbia University’s Center on African-American Politics and Society
 
• Rachel Moran, Dean of the UCLA School of Law
 
• Harvard Sitkoff, Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire
 
• John A. Stokes, an original plaintiff in the Brown v. Board of Education case
 
• Touré, journalist and cultural critic

Live performances by:



Toshi Reagon

Manhattan Country School

Manhattan Theatre Lab



Please arrive at 2 p.m. Doors open at 2:30 p.m.



Presented by WNYC and the Brooklyn Museum.



Sponsored by the Brooklyn Community Foundation, Tekserve, and SchoolBook.org.