Commemorate Martin
Luther King Jr. Day at the 17th annual "Come Share the Dream"
tribute taking place Jan. 20 at 11:30 am at the Brooklyn Academy
of Music’s Howard Gilman Opera House [30 Lafayette Ave. at Ashland
Place in Fort Greene, (718) 636-4100]. The free event is presented
by Borough President Marty Markowitz, BAM and Medgar Evers College.
The keynote address will be delivered by attorney Fred D. Gray
(pictured), president of the Alabama State Bar Association and
author of the book "Bus Ride to Justice" (River City,
1999). Gray defended Rosa Parks (who refused to give up her seat
to a white man on a city bus), King and the Montgomery bus boycott
participants in the landmark 1950s U.S. Supreme Court segregation
case. Gray also represented the victims – more than 600 black
men – of the Tuskegee syphilis experiment in the 1970s.
Jazz vocalist Lizz Wright will perform with Voices from The Brooklyn
Tabernacle Choir. Free screenings of Julie Dash’s "The Rosa
Parks Story" (2002), starring Angela Bassett, will follow
at the BAM Rose Cinemas. Seating is available on a first-come,
first-served basis.
