Abstract Film screening: “A Force More Powerful, a Century of Non-Violent Conflict”Houston Première of a new feature length documentary focusing on the activists who undertook non-violent change in British-ruled India, “Jim Crow” Southern USA, and apartheid South Africa.Rev. James Lawson, Methodist Minister from California who started the movement in the United States, was present for the film presentation.Place: Rice Media CenterParticipants The Rev....

Abstract Achieving Freedom A Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Celebration In Collaboration with The Buffalo Soldiers National Museum Sunday, January 15, 2006 at 3:00 pm “Achieving Freedom” is a celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday. Presented in collaboration with The Buffalo Soldiers National Museum, the program will address the African American quest for freedom through racial struggle and hard-won success in the military. The program will begin with an introduction by...

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Abstract Performed by the Houston Ebony Opera Guild. Performers: Jason Oby, tenor; Marion Vernette Moore, Soprano; Shana Mashego, Soprano; Leon Turner, Bass; and John Cornelius II, pianoAmerican Portraits I too sing...the darker brother featuring Houston Ebony Opera GuildThursday, April 10 at 7:30 p.m. The Houston Ebony Opera Guild is an organization of classically trained African American singers based in Houston, Texas. Founded to provide opportunities for minority...

Abstract with Amiri BarakaAmiri Baraka was born Everett LeRoi Jones in 1934 in Newark, NJ. After leaving Howard University and the Air Force, he moved to the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 1957 and co-edited the avant-garde literary magazine Yugen and founded Totem Press, which first published works by Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and others.He published his first volume of poetry, Preface to a Twenty-Volume Suicide Note, in 1961. Blues People: Negro Music in White America...

Abstract Annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Celebration "Monumental Decisions: Art, Politics, and Social Responsibility" Conversation with artist Ed Dwight, Harris County Commissioner Rodney Ellis, and Texas Southern University Art Historian and Curator Dr. Alvia Wardlaw, moderated by ABC13’s news anchor Melanie LawsonIn honor of the life and work of the Rev. Dr. King, the Chapel held a lecture and conversation exploring the power of symbols in our society today....

Abstract "Images and Words: Media's Influence on the Struggle for Civil Rights" Annual MLK Birthday Observance In partnership with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and The Gordon Parks Foundation Pay What You Can $5-20 | In-person event with chair seating and Livestream on VimeoIn partnership with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) and The Gordon Parks Foundation, the 2023 Annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Observance explores the role of the media in civil rights...

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Tamelyn Tucker-Worgs, Ph.D.

In 1963 Martin Luther King, Jr. challenged the black church to “answer the knock at midnight” and progressively engage in public life. As part of its annual tribute to the memory of Dr. King, native Houstonian Tamelyn Tucker-Worgs, Ph.D., will address faith-based community development in today’s churches—where it works, and where it fails, and how gender plays a role, particularly in the megachurch phenomenon.

Abstract Contemplation and Dialogue Alex Byrd, Ph.D., Judge Josefina Rendon, Assata Richards, Ph.D., and Mtangulizi Sanyika, Ph.D.Like much of the nation, the Chapel has been wrestling with our response to the lack of justice in the Michael Brown and Eric Garner cases and the possibilities for action going forward. Please join us for “Black Lives Matter,” which builds on our yearlong program series on Living As If: The Art, Spirituality, and Practice of Non-Violence. Harnessing the...

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TF Freeman, Black History Month Lecture