West Virginia Universitys Center for Black Culture will host the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Unity Breakfast at 8 a.m. Monday, Jan. 15, at the Mountainlair Ballrooms.

This years breakfast will feature WVU College of Law Professor Vivian Hamilton as the keynote speaker.

The MLK Achievement Award and MLK Scholarship will also be presented Monday morning.

Hamilton received her bachelors degree at Yale and her law degree at Harvard. She has been at WVU since 2004 and previously served as the director of the Women and the Law Clinic at American University Washington College of Law.

Later in the day Monday, a musical tribute to Kings life featuring Al Anderson and friends titledReminiscing the Dreamwill be shown at 2 p.m. at the Metropolitan Theater. The event is sponsored by the Community Coalition for Social Justice.

Both events are free and open to the public, but RSVPs are being accepted for the Unity Breakfast by calling or emailing penny.kennedy@mail.wvu.edu or 304-293-7029.

Derrick Bell, the first tenured black law professor at Harvard Law School and one of the countrys leading civil rights authors, spoke Thursday (Jan. 11) night at the 22nd annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration Program at Spruce Street United Methodist Church.

The service was organized by WVU s Center for Black Culture.