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MLK Dream Weekend Recognized at Upstate Diversity Leadership Awards Dinner

The MLK Dream Weekend Executive Board (aka the “Dream Team”) was privileged to participate in a wonderful night of celebration of the diversity, strength, and unique culture of Greenville SC. We were honored to win the Upstate Diversity Award for Non-Profit Organizations. This award was given by the Diversity Leadership Institute, sponsored by the Riley Institute of Furman University, the …

Keeping King’s Dream Alive Remains Important by Dr. Judith Prince

On Tuesday, February 1, 2005, I was sitting on the front row in council chambers as the Greenville County Council approved Martin Luther King Day. I will forever remember the unbearable tension created by years of disappointment, spontaneously leaping in the air when approval was certain, the crowd erupting in a loud roar, and, finally, feelings of incredible joy.

By 2005, Martin Luther King, …

Herman Boone, 2011 MLK Diversity Banquet Speaker

Football Coach / Motivator In 1971, Herman Boone faced the challenge of a lifetime, and his inspirational story was captured in the Disney film Remember the Titans starring Academy Award-winner Denzel Washington. In 1971, racial tensions ran high in Alexandria, VA, as three schools were newly integrated to form the T.C. Williams High School. It was from this union that the Titan football team …

Media Releases 2011

FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES CHANGES TO DEDICATION DAY PLANS

Dream Builders Project Press Release

MLK Dream Weekend Sponsor & Partner Report 2011

2011 Campaign Press Release

Greenville News Editorial: Help celebrate King’s dream

MLK Dream Weekend Announces Liberty Bridge Candlelight Vigil and Prayer Walk

MLK Dream Weekend Announces 2011 Diversity Banquet Keynote Speaker, …

Lynn Whitfield, 2010 MLK Diversity Banquet Speaker

Emmy Award-Winning Actress

Growing up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Lynn Whitfield first watched the likes of Audrey Hepburn in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” and Bette Davis in “All About Eve” from her grandmother’s lap. She loved classic movies and with child-like confidence, she could see no reason she could not become an actress and some day play those same types of roles. Over the …

Media Releases 2010

2011 Campaign Press Release

The 2010 Diversity Banquet Video

Media Kit 2010

MLK Dream Weekend Announces “Win A Dream” Contest During Fifth Year

MLK Dream Weekend to Host Teen Dream Night Competition

MLK Dream Weekend Announces Champion of Dreams Community Day Event

MLK Dream Weekend 2010 Diversity Banquet Tickets Available, Keynote Speaker Announced

MLK Dream …

Dr. Bernice King, 2006 MLK Diversity Banquet Speaker

Nationally and internationally known as one of the most powerful, motivating and life-changing orators and speakers, Bernice A. King leaves her audiences spellbound and challenged. Born the youngest daughter of Coretta Scott King and the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Bernice began her oratorical journey when she spoke in her mother’s stead at the United Nations at age 17. Over the years, …

Martin Luther King, III, 2007 MLK Diversity Banquet Speaker

Martin Luther King, III, the second oldest child of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King, has been motivating audiences around the world with his insightful message of hope and civility for nearly twenty years. He has taken the torch lit by his father and continued the quest for equality and justice for all people. From Mozambique to Mississippi, Israel to Indiana, his message has …

Terrence Roberts, 2008 MLK Diversity Banquet Speaker

A 15 year old eleventh grader when he joined eight other students and became one of the first nine black students to go to a formerly segregated public high school in Little Rock, he is now co-chairperson of the Master’s in Psychology Program at Antioch University. A graduate of California State University at Los Angeles (BA), and UCLA (MSW), Dr. Roberts obtained his Ph.D. in psychology …

Les Brown, 2009 MLK Diversity Banquet Speaker

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As a renowned professional speaker, author and television personality, Les Brown has risen to national prominence by delivering a high energy message which tells people how to shake off mediocrity and live up to their greatness. It is a message Les Brown has learned from his own life and one he is helping others apply to their lives.

Born a twin in low-income Liberty …