EVANSVILLE — People looking to celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in Evansville will have several options beginning Saturday and into MLK Day on Monday.
BMDA hosting scholarship banquet
At 6 p.m. Saturday, the Evansville Baptist Ministers and Deacons Alliance (BMDA) will host the seventh annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Scholarship Banquet in the Old National Events Plaza ballroom.
Judge Glenda A Hatchett, the first Black chief presiding judge of any state court in Georgia and a popular television personality, will be this year’s banquet keynote speaker. For ticket information call Liberty Baptist Church at (812) 422-4628.
University of Evansville lecture
Journalist and scholar Dr. Jelani Cobb will be the keynote speaker for the University of Evansville’s William G. and Rose Mays MLK Day Lectureship on Monday.
The annual event, which will be open to the public, will be held in UE’s Eykamp Hall at Ridgway University Center. Doors open at 3:30 p.m., and the program begins at 4 p.m…