Events Set to Honor King

Several celebrations are planned Monday in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

In Glendale, a special lunch hour community program will feature remarks by Mayor Ginger Bremberg and Cal State Long Beach Professor Leonard Olguin. Husband-wife folk musicians Dennis and Paula Doyle will perform.

The commemoration will be at noon in the Glendale Central Library Auditorium, 222 W. Harvard St.

At Occidental College, a day of activities has been planned. At 9 a.m., a panel of representatives from different ethnic groups on campus, women’s organizations and gay and lesbian groups will discuss “Ethnicity, Gender and Religious Freedom.”

At noon will be the “Sounding of the Drum,” which Monique Lewis, director of multicultural programs at Occidental, said is an African cultural representation to bring the community together.

The film “The Long Walk Home,” about the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott, starring Sissy Spacek and Whoopi Goldberg, will be shown at 2 p.m. The day will end with “Tribute to a Dreamer,” in which actor Leland P. Smith will portray King delivering speeches to the music of John Coltrane and Pharaoh Sanders, played by jazz quartet Joshua Natural Sound.

The Occidental programs will be held on the campus, 1600 Campus Road, Los Angeles. For the specific locations, call (213) 259-2522.