Apollo Uptown Hall: Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration
January 12, 2020 3:00pm
The Apollo Theater and WNYC are partnering for the seventh year to present WNYC’s 14th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day celebration, The Strategic King: MLK’s Visionary Leadership as part of the Apollo’s Uptown Hall series. WNYC’s Peabody Award-winning host Brian Lehrer and Jami Floyd, local host of All Things Considered, will moderate this convening of artists and activists, journalists, and changemakers to deeply engage with Dr. King’s legacy and how his actions and teachings speak to and inform the social justice matters of our own time. For the first time in our history, this live event will be recorded for national broadcast to over 300 stations on NPR’s 1A on the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday, Monday, January 20. Locally in New York, WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show will air the special on Monday, January 20, 2020.
This year’s event focuses on Dr. King and his colleagues’ skillful use of the media and politically strategic tactics to influence politicians and help pass key legislation in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. Panelists will consider how those strategies continue to inform and inspire contemporary social justice movements, especially as some of those very protections are under attack today.
Apollo Uptown Halls are free and open to the public, but tickets are required for entry. Tickets will be released Tuesday, January 2nd.
Location
Apollo Theater
253 West 125th Street
New York NY 10027 US