From The Office of Senator Angela Bryant
2016 MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. HOLIDAY EVENTS FOR HALIFAX, NASH, WARREN, WILSON, VANCE, EDGECOMBE COUNTIES and SURROUNDING AREAS
As more events are added we will republish this list.
“Everybody can be great . . . because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love”. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
HALIFAX COUNTY EVENTS
Sunday, January 10, 2016 – 3:00pm – Roanoke Valley-Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Halifax Branch of NAACP’s 3rd Annual Wreath Laying Ceremony at the MLK Park, Virginia Ave & Wyche St, Roanoke Rapids. For more information call 252-532-0071 or 252-326-2011.
Sunday, January 17, 2016 – 3:00p.m. – Halifax County Black Caucus (HCBC) and Halifax County Chapter of the NAACP will host the 3rd Annual MLK Birthday Commemoration will take place at the MLK Park, Virginia Ave & Wyche St, Roanoke Rapids. Speakers will be youth whose parents founded the HCBC. For more information, please call Gary R. Grant at 252.826.3017 or Marilyn High Harris at 252.537.6305.
Monday, January 18, 2016 – 10:00am – 12th Annual MLK Parade, Main St., Littleton, NC, 9:15am line-up near Post Office on Mosby Ave. Open to businesses, churches, school clubs & community organizations. Sponsored by Oak Grove Baptist Church, Littleton, NC and Piney Grove Baptist Church, Halifax, NC. For more information call 252-308-7328 or 919-358-0980.
Monday, January 18, 2016 – 12:00pm – 14th Annual MLK Program, Oak Grove Baptist Church, Littleton, NC. Sponsored by Oak Grove Baptist Church, Littleton, NC and Piney Grove Baptist Church, Halifax, NC. For more information call 252-308-7328 or 919-358-0980
Monday, January 18, 2016 – 1:45pm – 2016 MLK Community Service Project. Workforce Investment Opportunity Act, Halifax, NC, will be assisting 16-24 year olds with reentry to school and job training skills. Workforce Investment Opportunity Act will also be collecting school/office supplies, snacks and paper goods. Sponsored by Oak Grove Baptist Church, Littleton, NC and Piney Grove Baptist Church, Halifax, NC. For more information call 252-308-7328 or 919-358-0980.
Monday, Jan. 17, 2016 – 12:00pm – The Halifax County Black Caucus’s annual Halifax Countywide Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration. The “Let’s Talk about the Issues-State of the County” event will be held at the Tillery Community Center, 321 Community Center Road, Tillery, North Carolina. . For more information, please call Gary R. Grant at 252.826.3017 or Marilyn High Harris at 252.537.6305.
ROCKY MOUNT EVENTS
Saturday, Jan. 9, 2016 – 9:00am — Annual Oratorical Competition, Theater at the Imperial Centre, 270 Gay St., Rocky Mount, NC.
Sunday, Jan. 17, 2016 – 5:00pm – Ebenezer Baptist MLK Candlelight Service. Keynote speaker Rev. Dr. O.D. Sykes, Pastor of Swift Creek Baptist Church and Springfield Baptist Church. For more information contact: Ebenezer Baptist Church at 252 446-2378.
Monday, Jan. 18, 2016 – 7:00am The City of Rocky Mount and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission’s 28th Annual Unity Breakfast, NC Wesleyan’s Dunn Center for the Performing Arts, located on the campus of N.C. Wesleyan College. Speaker: Douglas Tappin, writer and composer of “I Dream”. Breakfast begins at 7:00a.m. and program starts at 8:00a.m. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, visit rockymountnc.gov.
Monday, Jan. 18, 2016 – Volunteers Needed for a Day of Service. Promptly after the 28th Annual Unity Breakfast, volunteers will gather at the Dunn Center for the Performing Arts for a Day of Service. Event partners have coordinated a day for volunteers to participate in several service projects. For more information or to sign up, call 252.454.1682 or email kparkers@ncwc.edu.
Monday, January 18, 2016 – 11:00a.m. – 7th Annual MLK Day Celebration. Greater Joy Church, Speaker: Pastor Robert Mason of Greater Love Worship Center, Durham, NC. For more information contact Bishop Shelton Daniel at 919.818.2850.
Saturday, March 5, 2016 from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m – The Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission, PNC and NC Wesleyan College – The International Festival of Cultures, Nash Community College’s Brown Auditorium. For more information visit www.rockymountnc.gov.
NASH COUNTY EVENTS
Sunday, January 17, 2016 – 4:00p.m. – 24th Annual MLK Memorial Concert, Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church, 426 Cutchin St, Whitakers, NC, featuring Youth and Gospel Choirs from Whitakers, Battleboro, and Enfield area.
Monday, January 18, 2016 – 7:30am – Community Empowerment Alliance’s 19th Annual MLK Community Empowerment Breakfast, Franklinton Center at Bricks, US 301 North, Whitakers, NC Speaker: Rev. Oliver Washington, Pastor of Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church, Whitakers, NC. For more information contact: James Wrenn at jimwrenn@embarqmail.com.
Monday, January 18, 2016 – 9:30am –18th Annual Whitakers MLK Day Motorcade & March start at Whitakers Town Park, NW Railroad Street; march ends at Bloomer Hill Community Center. For more information contact: James Wrenn at jimwrenn@embarqmail.com.
Monday, January 18, 2016 – 11:00am – CDC Workers Unity Committee/Carolina Auto, Aerospace & Machine Workers Union – UE150, and the Bloomer Hill Community Association’s – 26th Annual Martin Luther King Day Celebration, Bloomer Hill Community Center, US 301, Whitakers, NC Keynote Speaker: Rev. Robert C. Farmer, Pastor of Smith Chapel Baptist Church, Enfield, NC and St. Stephens Missionary Baptist Church, Tarboro, NC. For more information contact: James Wrenn at jimwrenn@embarqmail.com.
WILSON COUNTY EVENTS
Monday, January 18, 2016 – 11am – LET FREEDOM RING” MLK Jr. Community Celebration, The Debut of The M.L.K Jr. Community Mass Choir, CALLING ON ALL AREA – Churches, Civic Groups, Social Organizations, Fraternities, Sororities, Political Organizations, Neighborhood Associations and more. Wilson County Courthouse Steps. Pastor Fulton Parham Phone 252-360-9833
Saturday, January 16, 2016 – 6:00pm – 7th Annual “Share the Dream” talent show, Edna Boykin Cultural Center, 108 Nash St., Wilson, NC. Doors open at 5 pm for tickets. Price of tickets: $5 and one canned good for adults, $2 for children under 12.