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This year for MLK Week at Western we had several events. We had a film showing of Brother Outsider. 

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Singing: Through the struggle, through the pain. 

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Singing: Every day through the sun, through the snow, through the rain.

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Eyo: We also had vocal word performance by the Black Student Union.

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You see, when two parents aren't in conjunction, a dysfunctional child is inevitable.

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See, Mommy's not on time with Daddy and Daddy's not on time with Mommy, so the child grows up off-schedule and it's incredible.

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Get together, my brothers and sisters. It's time you must unite as one.

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A circle of healing, a circle of friends. Some place where we can be free.

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Eyo: We also had a presentation from the Service Learning and Career Development office on how to turn your passion for social justice into a career.

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Clark: To a lot of students Martin Luther King is a hero. He's somebody who galvanized people to make the world a better place, fought for social justice. 

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And I think a lot of students don't necessarily know that they in their own little way can build a career like that,

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where they're really putting their values, their passion toward something that will make the world a better place.

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Singing: Would everyone, at least your neighbor ' 

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We also had a keynote address by Heidi Durrow, who is the author of a New York bestselling novel.

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I also love to speak to students because, whether you know it or not, you are the most powerful people in the world. You really are. 

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You live in an age when you have the most advanced technological tools in your hands, with your cell phones and your iPads and your Tablets and your laptops. 

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No generation before you has had such easy access and connection to information and the global community and the power to make meaningful change in your community 

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and in fact, the world.

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For me, it's personally important to celebrate Dr. King's legacy, because he was all about social change and social justice issues. 

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We definitely know that there are a variety of social justice needs within our community and beyond.

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So we continue to celebrate his legacy to give our students the opportunity to find out whatever things they're passionate about so that they can also bring about that needed change.

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Singing: Thank you, Dr. King, for your dream. [scat singing] Oh, thank you.