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FEATURE: MLK and the Strength of Shared Dreams
Dialogues in Diversity was commissioned by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Committee of Greater Attleboro Massachusetts to create an original keynote address for its 2017 MLK celebration at the
John Wesley AME Zion Church. Based on the Committee's theme: "MLK & The Strength of Shared Dreams," we created a program that was part performance and part lecture. We focused on MLK’s Poor People's Campaign as the best possible theme to build our work around.
Dialogues on Diversity
"Shared Dreams"
Through live character portrayal and video,
“Shared Dreams" depicts how MLK’s “Poor People's Campaign" was a turning point in intersectional advocacy. A broad cross-section of cultural groups came together to fight against poverty. Had King lived to be the face of this young movement, it would have changed the way we look at race and social issues. We believe that it would have been a great leap forward in our American Civil Rights Story.
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When most people think of the American “Civil Rights Movement" they focus on the African American struggle of the 1950’s and 1960’s and within that, they focus on MLK as the figurehead of that movement. It is not that those things are inaccurate, it is more that they are incomplete. Moreover, they paint an incomplete picture of the man and the nature of civil rights in America.
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