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Detroit
Historical
Society
To
Feature
Virtual
Film
Screening
and
Panel
Discussion
for MLK
Day 2021
DETROIT
- Across
America,
over 900
streets
bear the
name of
Martin
Luther
King,
Jr. For
this
year’s
Martin
Luther
King,
Jr. Day
celebration,
the
Detroit
Historical
Society’s
Black
Historic
Sites
Committee
and the
Detroit
Historical
Museum
will
present
an
in-depth
look
into how
race and
geography
have
played a
role in
naming
streets
after
King,
and
whether
the
streets
have
lived up
to his
legacy
and
dreams.
The
all-virtual
event on
Monday,
January
18 from
1 – 3
p.m. is
free
with
registration
and will
include
a panel
discussion
and
special
viewing
of the
15-minute
film
short
King
Blvd.
The
ZOOM
event
panel
will
feature:
• Earl
Hardy,
writer
and
producer
of King
Blvd. In
his
travels,
Hardy
noticed
that MLK
Streets
were
often
located
in
blighted
neighborhoods
and
wanted
to know
why, and
what
could be
done to
revitalize
those
areas.
This
investigation
led the
Detroit
native
to write
and
produce
King
Blvd.
• Dr.
Derek
Alderman,
cultural
geographer
and
professor
at the
University
of
Tennessee.
He has
studied
and
written
about
streets
named
after
MLK
since
the
early
1990s.
Dr.
Alderman’s
specialties
include
race,
public
memory,
symbolic
landscapes,
heritage
tourism
and
critical
place-name
study.
• Jamon
Jordan,
local
historian,
educator
and
founder
of The
Black
Scroll
Network,
History
& Tours.
He
established
the tour
company
after
twenty
years as
a public
school
teacher
who
observed
the
scarcity
of
African
American
history
in
school
curriculums
and
decided
to do
something
about
it.
For
more
information
and
registration,
visit
https://detroithistorical.org/detroit-historical-museum/events-calendar/events-listing/virtual-event-mlk-streets-more-name
The
Black
Historic
Sites
Committee
is an
affinity
group of
the
Detroit
Historical
Society
and was
founded
in 1971
by
Detroit
City
Councilman
Ernest.
C.
Browne
to
promote
a
greater
understanding
and
appreciation
of the
contributions
African
Americans
have
made to
the
history
of
Detroit,
Michigan
and the
nation.
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