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On the morning of January 18th, the Leaders Connect Breakfast members met to honor the great civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The panel was facilitated by Sonya Jacobs, Chief Organizational Officer at the University of Michigan. Click here to watch the discussion. Below is a summary of some key take-aways: Sonya Jacobs shared that although she was born after MLk was assassinated, her father, who had helped organize “the Great Walk” in Detroit, instilled in her a need for …

When I first heard Martin Luther King deliver the “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963, I was on a ladder in Detroit, painting a house and listening on my transistor radio. Later that fall, when I was a senior at Ferndale High School where race riots were breaking out, I remembered the powerful speech. As I felt compelled to take some action, I decided to bring together student leaders from both races to talk to one another about what we could do to relieve the tension and resolve …