MLK Forum in Chicago Sun Times (January 15, 2004)

Posted by Mitchell - January 16, 2004 (entry 134)

Chicago Media Action's January 18, 2004, forum, received a kind mention in the Stella Foster Sun-Times column of January 15, 2004. Below is an excerpt of that column.

Stella's column

January 15, 2004

BY STELLA FOSTER, SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST

MLK EVENTS: Kweisi Mfume, president and CEO of the NAACP, keynotes the 35th annual Dr. Martin Luther King dinner Saturday at the Chicago Hilton and Towers, sponsored by the Suburban Human Relations Commission. Mfume will receive the Excellence in Leadership Award named in honor of King. WGN-TV's Merri Dee will emcee.... The Rev. Michael Pfleger of St. Sabina Church addresses Mayor Daley's annual MLK interfaith breakfast on Friday at the Chicago Hilton. ... Academy-Award-winning actor Sidney Poitier, on behalf of St. Sabina Church, speaks Friday evening at the Christ Universal Temple.... Chicago Media Action's education forum in honor of MLK is Sunday at the Chicago Temple, 77 W. Washington.

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