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Tyson to keynote Martin Luther King, Jr. Day service

Details on the annual rally, march and worship service from our local branch of the NAACP:

CHAPEL HILL – CARRBORO NAACP BRANCH SPONSORS M.L. KING, JR. DAY RALLY, MARCH AND WORSHIP SERVICE

The Chapel Hill – Carrboro Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) will sponsor its annual Dr. Martin L. King, Jr. Day Rally, March and Worship Service on Monday, January 18, 2010.

The rally will start at 9:00 a.m. at the Peace and Justice Plaza (Franklin Street Post Office and Court Building) in Chapel Hill. Speakers will include representatives of the local NAACP and the UNC-CH branches. The keynote speaker will be Rev. Robert Campbell, President of the Rogers-Eubank Roads Neighborhood Association. The rally will be followed by a March down Franklin Street at 9:30 a.m.

The March will end at First Baptist Church, 106 N. Roberson Street, where a worship service will start at 10:30 a.m. The keynote speaker for the worship service will be Timothy Tyson, Ph.D. Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. Dr. Tyson also serves as a Visiting Professor of American Christianity and Southern Culture at Duke Divinity School, and holds appointments in the Department of History at Duke University and in the Department of American Studies at the University of North Carolina. He received his B.A. from Emory University in 1987 and his Ph.D. from Duke University in 1994.

Tyson’s book, Blood Done Sign My Name, won the Southern Book Award for Nonfiction, the Grawemeyer Award from the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, and the Christopher Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Jeb Stuart, a Hollywood screenwriter and director, best known for “The Fugitive” and “Die Hard,” has completed a feature film based on Blood Done Sign My Name, which will be released in February 2010.

Tyson’s latest publication, “Ghosts of 1898: Wilmington’s Race Riot and the Rise of White Supremacy,” a special 16-page section of the Raleigh News & Observer, was distributed to 700,000 North Carolina households and won an Excellence Award from the National Association of Black Journalists.

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