The sixth annual Southern Maryland Martin Luther King, Jr. Prayer Breakfast will be held Monday, Jan. 18, 2010 in the Great Room of the St. Mary’s College of Maryland Campus Center. Breakfast is at 7 a.m., and the program begins at 8 a.m. Tickets are $7 and are available at the door. For more information, contact Marc Apter at (301) 904-3690.
This year’s prayer breakfast features William Yoast, a high school football coach whose story was part of the 2000 blockbuster hit, “Remember the Titans,” starring Denzel Washington. Yoast, who is white, served as assistant coach alongside head coach Herman Boone, who is black, in the early 1970s when T.C. Williams High School was first integrated.
The event will also feature guest speaker John W. Franklin, the associate director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, set to open 2015. Franklin has worked on African American, African, and African Diaspora programs for the past 22 years at the Smithsonian. He serves on the boards of the Reginald Lewis Maryland Museum of African American History and Culture and the Joint Center for Economic and Political Studies.
The St. Peter Claver Catholic Church Gospel Choir will also perform during the morning’s events.