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The Malvern Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Association announced its 2018 activ-ity schedule for upcoming events. The theme for the 2018 events is United in Hope, Standing for Justice.

• Saturday, Jan. 13 — MLK Banquet will be held at 6:30 p.m. at Mal-vern Community Center (Senior Center) located at 1800 West Moline Street in Malvern. The speaker will be Dr. Lewis A. Shepherd Jr., vice president of Stu-dent and External Affairs at Greater Pleasant Hill Bap-tist Church in Arkadelphia. Chairpersons are Rubye

Edwards, Beverly Lomack and Helen Joe Young. Ban-quet tickets are $30 for adults and $15 for children 12 and under or a student. Contact Rubye Edwards at (501) 467-6749, Ann Lo-mack at (501) 337-8110 or Helen Joe Young at (501) 229-2271 for Banquet tick-ets.

• Sunday, Jan. 14 — MLK Gospel Fest will be held at 3 p.m. at Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church located at 522 South Banks Street in Malvern. Bob-bie Hill is chairperson and Helen Joe Young and Bev-erly Lomack are co-chair-persons.

• Monday, Jan. 15 — The Great Gathering will

be held at noon at First Presbyterian Church lo-cated at 707 Martin Luther King Blvd. in Malvern. The speaker will be Mod-erator Donald R. Crossley of St. Mark Baptist Church in Hot Springs. Chairper-son is Pastor Courtney Ba-con Latina.

• Monday, Jan. 15 — MLK Parade will be held at 3 p.m. in Downtown Malvern. Alvin Murdock is chairperson, co-chairper-sons are Fannie Ready and Kevin Brandon. For parade information contact Mur-dock at (501) 467-4828 or Dr.. James N. McCollum at (501) 337-1776.

• Monday, Jan. 15 — MLK Memorial Service

will be held at 6 p.m. at Greater New Hope Bap-tist Church located at 1202 West Sullenberger Street in Malvern. The speaker will be Rev. James Frierson Jr. of New Life Christian Fel-lowship Church in Mal-vern. The event is spon-sored by the Minister’s Conference.

The Malvern Dr. Mar-tin Luther King Jr. Asso-ciation will be awarding Scholarships to Malvern High School graduates. Applications are available at Malvern High School, College of the Ouachitas, Work Force Center or by calling Jacquelyn Tatum at (501) 337-2604.

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Well respect-ed, honored and appreciated for his civil rights activism, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. right-fully earned his place as one of the most influ-ential figures in American and world history. Through his re-ligious teach-ings and social activism, Dr. King played a key role in the American Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s.

While Dr. King lived a good portion of his life in the public eye, many facts of his life are not widely known. In honor of his birthday and Black History Month, the following are some interesting and less publicized facts about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

1. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birth name was not “Martin,” but “Michael.” Dr. King’s father traveled to Germany and became inspired by Protestant reformer Martin Luther and thus changed his name while also changing the name of his then 5-year-old-son.

2. Dr. King was a prodigious student. Not only did he skip two grades and start college before for-mally graduating high school, but Dr. King also earned a bachelor’s degree at age 19, graduating from Morehouse College in 1948 with a

degree in sociology.3. Though not a singer, Dr. King

earned a posthumous Grammy Award nonetheless. In 1971, Dr. King was awarded Best Spoken Word album for “Why I Oppose the War in Vietnam.”

4. Although people cannot read-ily find photographs of Dr. King smoking, he was a regular smok-er and even hid the habit from the public and from his children so they wouldn’t take up smoking. It was believed Dr. King was smok-ing a cigarette when he was fatally shot.

5. While Dr. King is remem-bered as an enthralling public speaker, he actually scored poorly in public speaking during his first year at seminary. He received a “C” in the class but earned straight “As” by his final year.

6. Dr. King was a “Star Trek” fan. He convinced actress Nichelle

Nichols, who played the role of “Uhura” on the show, to continue working with the series. Nichols was considering leaving, but Dr. King told her she was breaking boundaries by playing a char-acter who didn’t conform to black stereotypes.

7. Dr. King narrowly escaped an assassination attempt on Sep-

tember 20, 1958. On that day, Dr. King was in Harlem signing cop-ies of his new book, “Stride To-ward Freedom,” when he was ap-proached by a woman who stabbed him with a letter opener. He barely survived.

8. Dr. King’s speech in Memphis in April 1968 may have prophesied his death. Speaking to an audience at Mason Temple Church, King said, “Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I’m not concerned about that now … I’ve seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land.”

9. Dr. King’s birthday is now observed as a national holiday in the United States. President Ron-ald Reagan signed the bill in 1983. The only other American to earn this honor is George Washington.

Nine things you might not know about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.