Reverend Liz Walker
of the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church and
Host/Executive Producer, CBS4’s “Sunday with Liz Walker”
to deliver
36th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Breakfast Keynote Address

Monday, January 16, 2006 at 8:00 am
Boston Convention Center, 415 Summer Street

The Rev. Liz Walker will offer the keynote address at annual commemoration of the life and legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Sponsored by Union United Methodist Church and St. Cyprian's Episcopal Church for the past 36 years, this city-wide event will provide community members with an opportunity to reflect, recharge, and refocus their work and energies toward justice, harmony and universal liberty.

“The current polarization and divisiveness which we witness today in our nation clearly demonstrates what a formidable task we face in order to make Dr. King’s dream a reality in our land,” says Rev. Martin D. McLee, pastor of the Union United Methodist Church. “This breakfast provides a forum for us not only to give thanks for his outstanding contributions, but also to reaffirm our commitment to accept the challenge to hasten the day when, in Dr. King’s words, “justice will roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.”

The MLK, Jr. Memorial Breakfast Committee will honor the Liberty Mutual Foundation for its annual underwriting of three $2000 college scholarships to seniors at the Jeremiah E. Burke High School, the John D. O’Bryant High School of Mathematics and Science, and the Madison Park Technical Vocational High School.

The Committee will also recognize Citizens Bank for underwriting certificates of deposit to each of five eighth-grade students at the Orchard Gardens K-8 School’s second annual art contest. Last year’s winners each received certificates of deposit valued at $1000.

The annual breakfast is one of the oldest celebrations of the life and legacy of Dr. King in the United States. Past keynote speakers have included Bishop Vashti Murphy-McKenzie, the African Methodist Episcopal Church’s first woman bishop and Yolanda King, Dr. King’s eldest daughter.

Music will be provided by St. Cyprian’s Celestial Inferno Steel Band.

A 25-year veteran of CBS4, Rev. Walker received her Master’s of Divinity from Harvard’s Divinity School last year. Rev. Walker’s appearance is sponsored by the Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare Foundation. She will be available for questions at 7:30am.

Tickets are available to members of the general public at $35.00 per person by calling Union United Methodist Church at (617) 536-0872. Free shuttle service will be available from South Station beginning at 7:00am.