NEW CANAAN ADVERTISER, NEW CANAAN, CONN., THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 2008 3A
Eco Man
By Richard M. Stowe
King’s environmental legacy celebrated at Yale Sunday
Today as I write it is January 15, 2008. That would have been the 79th birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. if he were alive. At this time last year (2007), I briefly met his son Martin Luther King, III, a human rights advocate, at the Riverside Church in New York, where nearly thirty years earlier on April 4, 1967 Mr. King gave what was then characterized as a controversial speech – “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence.”
As we celebrate the birth of Martin Luther King, Jr. this coming weekend I invite you to join me in attending the 7th Annual Arnold J. Alderman Lecture (http://www.peabody.yale.edu/events/mlkday.html#lecture) at the Yale Peabody Museum on Sunday January 20th at 2 p.m. This year’s speaker is Jerome Ringo, the President of the Apollo Alliance (http://www.apolloalliance.org/). His lecture is entitled “Environmental Injustice: The Other Inconvenient Truth.”
The lecture is the keynote during a two-day tribute at the Peabody Museum to the slain civil rights leader called “Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Legacy of Environmental and Social Justice.”
Keep it green.
