CHEERS AND APPLAUSE

>> THANK YOU.

CHEERS AND APPLAUSE

>> THANK YOU. THANK YOU, EVERYBODY. THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU.

APPLAUSE

>> THANK YOU, EVERYBODY. THANK YOU. GOOD AFTERNOON. I AM WISCONSIN GOVERNOR TONY EVERS.

CHEERS AND APPLAUSE

>> AND WELCOME TO THE 39TH ANNUAL TRIBUTE AND CEREMONY HONORING THE REVEREND DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING. THIS IS THE OLDEST OFFICIAL STATE CEREMONY IN OUR NATION'S HISTORY. SO THANK YOU, WISCONSIN!

CHEERS AND APPLAUSE

>> AS GOVERNOR, I'M PLEASED TO JOIN WITH YOU IN REMEMBERING AND CELEBRATING THE INCREDIBLE LIFE OF DR. KING. THE 2019 MLK THEME IS "TRUTH IS MARCHING." IT ASKS US TO NOT ONLY CONSIDER THAT WE ALL CAN SHARE OUR OWN TRUTHS, BUT ALSO LOOK FOR OPPORTUNITIES TO LISTEN TO THE TRUTHS OF OTHERS. AND NOW IT IS MY GREAT PLEASURE TO INTRODUCE TO YOU THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND PRODUCER OF TODAY'S CEREMONY, WISCONSIN'S OWN DR. JONATHAN OVERBY.

APPLAUSE

>> HELL LOARKS HELLO, WISCONSIN! HERE WE ARE TODAY. IT IS GOOD TO BE WITH YOU TODAY. THANK YOU FOR JOINING ME AND GOVERNOR EVERS AND KATHY EVERS WHO IS HERE AS WELL TODAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. GOOD TO SEE YOU.

APPLAUSE

>> NOW, WE'RE GOING TO CELEBRATE DR. KING'S TODAY, BUT IT'S GOT TO HAVE A LITTLE SPARK TO IT. DO YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? THIS IS A DAY OF CELEBRATION. COME ON, EVERYBODY. PUT YOUR HANDS TOGETHER. LET'S HAVE A LITTLE PARTY UP IN HERE.

APPLAUSE

>> ALL RIGHT. WE ALSO HAVE THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR OF WISCONSIN, MANDELA BARNES. PLEASE RECOGNIZE HIM.

CHEERS AND APPLAUSE

>> AND THE NEWLY-APPOINTED WISCONSIN SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION, CAROLYN STANFORD TAYLOR IS HERE TODAY.

CHEERS AND APPLAUSE

>> ALL RIGHT, EVERYBODY. THIS DAY, MONDAY, JANUARY 21 OF 2019, WE, THE PEOPLE OF WISCONSIN, GATHER NOT ONLY TO CELEBRATE THE BIRTHDAY OF THE REVEREND DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. IN WORDS AND MUSIC RS, BUT ALSO TO PURSUE EQUALITY FOR ALL. THE ANNUAL WISCONSIN TRIBUTE AND CEREMONY HONORING DR. KING HAS DRAWN TOGETHER THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE FROM ACROSS THE STATE AND THE MIDWEST WITH A DESIRE TO CELEBRATE DR. KING AND TO CELEBRATE EACH OTHER, OUR UNIQUE DIFFERENCES AS WISCONSINITES, AND TO ALSO CELEBRATE OUR COMMONALITIES. BY DESIGN TODAY, THE PROGRAM HAS A WOMANIST FRAMING, REPRESENTED BY OUR DAIS THAT INCLUDES A DIVERSE COLLECTION OF WOMEN FROM VARIOUS BACKGROUNDS, IN RECOGNITION OF THE HISTORICAL ROLE THAT WOMEN HAVE PLAYED AS PIONEERS, ACTIVISTS DURING THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, CHANGE MAKERS AND INNOVATORS IN EVERY FIELD IN TODAY'S WORLD. AND AS LEADERS AND AS CHAMPIONS FOR A BETTER TOMORROW, NOT JUST FOR SOME, BUT FOR ALL. AND I WOULD LIKE ALL OF OUR WOMEN ON THIS DAIS TO STAND AND TO BE RECOGNIZED TODAY FOR THEIR SERVICE AND LEADERSHIP TO WISCONSIN.

WOMEN STANDING

[CHEERS AND STAND

CHEERS AND APPLAUSE

>> PLEASED REMAIN SEATED AS RABBI ANDREA STEINBERGER, WHO SERVES AS A RABBI AT THE HILLEL FOUNDATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN, THE JEWISH STUDENT CENTER ON THE UW-MADISON CAMPUS, WHO COMES TO RENDER TODAY'S INVOCATION.

APPLAUSE

>> THANK YOU, DR. OVERBY. CREATOR OF ALL PEOPLE, WE ASK YOUR BLESSINGS TODAY AS WE CELEBRATE THE LIFE OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., AND WE PROCLAIM THAT THE TRUTH IS MARCHING. WE HONOR THE MEMORIES OF WOMEN AND MEN WHO MARCHED, PROTESTING SEGREGATION, DEMONSTRATING MORAL RESISTANCE TO OUR GOVERNMENT'S POLICIES WHO WERE PIONEERS, WHO WERE CHANGEMAKERS. CREATOR OF WOMEN AND MEN OF OF ALL FAITHS AND RACES AND GENDERS, REMIND US OF THE GREAT WOMEN AND MEN BEFORE US WHO DEMONSTRATED SPIRITUAL RESISTANCE, OF THE BIB BIBLICAL HANNAH WHO ROSE UP WITH STRENGTH AND PRAYED FOR A CHILD. OF THE BIBLICAL MIDWIVES, SHIFFRA AND PUA WHO REFUSED TO KILL HEBREW BOYS AND REFUSED THE GOVERNMENT TO LET THE BOYS LIVE. HOLY ONE OF BLESSING, REMIND US OF THE WOMEN AND MEN WHO WERE FREEDOM RIDERS IN THE SUMMER OF 1963, WHO STOOD AGAINST SEGREGATION AND RACISM AMIDST THREATS OF VIOLENCE UPON THEM, WOMEN WHO BY THEIR EFFORTS OF RESISTANCE LED US ON A PATH TOWARD THE WOMEN'S MARCHES OF TODAY. TELL US AGAIN OF ROSA PARKS, WHO IN AN ACT OF EXTRAORDINARY COURAGE REFUSED TO GIVE UP HER SEAT ON AN ALABAMA BUS. TEACH US ABOUT THE DOZENS OF PRETEEN GIRLS WHO IN 1963 WERE JAILED FOR TWO MONTHS IN A STOCKADE IN LEESBURG, GEORGIA FOR CHALLENGING SEGREGATION IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. O LORD, MAKE US UNCOMFORTABLE. REMIND US NOT TO BE, AS DR. KING SAID, MORE DEVOTED TO ORDER THAN TO JUSTICE. URGE US NOT TO WAIT FOR A MORE CONVENIENT SEASON. TEACH US THAT IT IS OUR MORAL RESPONSIBILITY TO DISOBEY UNJUST LAWS. TEACH US TO LISTEN TO THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNHEARD. MERCIFUL ONE OF UNDERSTANDING, TEACH US HOW TO BE STRONG IN OUR PROTEST. RAISE US UP, THE YOUNG GIRLS AND THE WISE WOMEN AND MEN WHO ARE HERE IN THIS ROOM TODAY, GIVE US THE COURAGE TO DECLARE WITH EVERY FIBER IN OUR BEING WHAT IS STILL UNJUST IN THIS COUNTRY. GIVE US THE COURAGE TO DEMONSTRATE THAT THE TRUTH IS MARCHING. IN YOUR HOLY NAME, WE SAY AMEN. >> TODAY'S COMMEMORATION OF DR. KING'S LIFE ALSO RECALLS HIS TRAGIC DEATH AT THE AGE OF OF 39. IN TRUTH, KING WAS MURDERED. IN TRUTH, HE WAS NOT A PERFECT SOUL. AND YET WHAT HE LIVED FOR AND WHAT HE DIED FOR WAS INDEED PERFECT. IN TRUTH, HE ENTER INTERCEDED FOR A MARGINALIZED GROUP OF PEOPLE. HE IS IN THE HEARTS AND MINDS OF PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD ENTITLED TO THE PUBLIC VENERATION THAT WE BESTOW UPON HIM. BECAUSE OF HIS UNWAVERING COURAGE TO SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER ABOUT THE EVILNESS OF WAR, RACISM, OPPRESSION, OBSTRUCTIST EFFORTS TO KEEP BLACK PEOPLE FROM VOTING AND SO A ON AND SO ON. REVEREND DOCTOR WAS NOT ALONE. MANY NAMES LIE ALONGSIDE THOSE UNKNOWN BARREDS BARDS WHO ALSO SPOKE OF FREEDOM AT THEIR PERIL LONG BEFORE THERE WAS A MOVEMENT. SO WITH THE NATIONAL GUARD, CAPITOL CITY LODGE NO. 2 AND THE SECOND ISTHMIAN HIGHLANDERS, LET US STAND TO HONOR ALL WHO PAID THE ULTIMATE PRICE FOR FREEDOM AND JUSTICE. [WISCONSIN AIR AND ARMY NATIONAL GUARD HONOR DETAIL, PRINCE HALL CAPITAL CITY LODGE NO. 2 AND THE 2nd ISTHMIAN HIGHLANDERS PLAYING BAGS AND PIPES]

TAPS BEING PLAYED

"AMAZING GRACE" BEING PLAYED

RECESSIONAL OF HONOR GUARD

>> AND NOW, WHILE YOU ARE STILL STANDING, LET'S CELEBRATE EACH OTHER. PLEASE TURN AND GREET A STRANGER NEAR YOU IN THE SPIRIT OF GOOD COMMUNITY.

ATTENDEES GREETING ONE ANOTHER

>> DR. KING WAS A GIFTED ORATOR. WHEN HE SPOKE, HE COULD TAKE YOU TO THE MOUNTAINTOP. HIS WORDS WERE DESIGNED TO DRAW PEOPLE OF THIS NATION TOGETHER. IN TRUTH, HIS WORDS WERE WARNING UTTERED SOME 50 YEARS AGO THAT DRAMATICALLY ARE IN ALIGNMENT WITH THE DISTRESSING SOCIAL ISSUES THAT WE AS A NATION FACE TODAY. VIOLENT ATTACKS UPON INNOCENT PEOPLE IN PUBLIC PLACES AND SACRED PLACES OF WORSHIP ECHO BACK TO KING'S TIME WHEN THE SENTIMENTS OF WE AGAINST THEM IMPERILLED THOSE WHO WANTED WHAT

THEY DESERVED

EQUAL RIGHTS. HOWEVER, LET US THIS DAY FIND SOLACE AND STRENGTH IN THE POWER OF SONG. SO HERE IS MUSIC DIRECTOR BECCA MAY GRANT AND THE PIANO AND THE MLK WOMEN'S MASS CHOIR UNDER THE DIRECTION OF TAMERA A STANLEY. PLEASE GIVE THEM A WARM WELCOME.

APPLAUSE

THEY DESERVED

>> GOOD AFTERNOON TO EVERYONE. WE ARE HONORED TO BRING TO YOU THIS SELECTION AT THIS TIME, THE FIRST ONE BEING "DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE" AND A SECOND ONE AN ORIGINAL PIECE, "JUSTICE." HOLY, HOLY, HALLELUJAH GLORY, GLORY, HALLELUJAH GLORY, GLORY, HALLELUJAH HIS TRUTH IS MARCHING ON THE VERY LOVING ONE O, WHAT CAN WE GIVE THE WEALTHY ONE THE EVER BLESSED SOVEREIGN ONE O LORD, WE WANT TO SERVE YOU O LORD, WE WANT TO SERVE YOU OOH HOW CAN WE SERVE THE RIGHTEOUS ONE THE ONLY ETERNAL ONE OOH WHAT CAN WE SHOW THE WISE ONE THE EVER BLESSED ONE O LORD, WE WANT TO SERVE YOU O LORD, WE WANT TO SERVE YOU WHAT DOES HE REQUIRE TO TRUST HIM O, AND LOVE HIM YOU'RE GOD OOH THAT'S WHAT YOU DESIRE THAT'S WHAT YOU REQUIRE, O LORD, YEAH THE LAMB OF MERCY O, THE LAMB OF MERCY THE LAMB WITH YOU AND THE MERCY BLESS THE LAMB JESUS BLESS THE LAMB JESUS, YOU POSSESS THE WORLD OOH MAY WE WALK IN TRUTH THE TRUTH WALK IN TRUTH

CHEERS AND APPLAUSE

THEY DESERVED

GONNA LAY DOWN MY BURDEN DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE GONNA LAY DOWN MY BURDEN DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE STUDY WAR NO MORE GONNA LAY DOWN MY BURDEN DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE GONNA LAY DOWN MY BURDEN DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE STUDY WAR NO MORE (I AIN'T GONNA) STUDY WAR NO MORE STUDY WAR NO MORE STUDY WAR NO MORE STUDY WAR NO MORE STUDY WAR NO MORE STUDY WAR NO MORE DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE SING, SING, SING, SING DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE SING, SING, SING, SING DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE STUDY WAR NO MORE DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE PRAY, PRAY, PRAY DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE PRAY, PRAY, PRAY, PRAY DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE STUDY WAR NO MORE DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE PRAY DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE SHOUT, SHOUT, SHOUT, SHOUT SING, SING, SING, SING DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE PRAY, PRAY, PRAY, PRAY DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE STUDY WAR NO MORE STUDY WAR NO MORE STUDY WAR NO MORE

CLAPPING HANDS

THEY DESERVED

PRAISE HIM BY THE RIVERSIDE PRAISE HIM BY THE RIVERSIDE PRAISE HIM BY THE RIVERSIDE PRAISE HIM BY THE RIVERSIDE PRAISE HIM BY THE RIVERSIDE PRAISE HIM BY THE RIVERSIDE PRAISE HIM BY THE RIVERSIDE STUDY WAR NO MORE STUDY WAR NO MORE STUDY WAR NO MORE

CHEERS AND APPLAUSE

THEY DESERVED

>> OH, I KNOW YOU CAN DO BETTER THAN THAT. COME ON. GIVE THE MLK MASS CHOIR A BIG HAND.

APPLAUSE

THEY DESERVED

I LIKE THAT COME ON, Y'ALL ALL RIGHT O YEAH YES WELL FEELS KIND OF GOOD O DON'T LET ME GET STARTED I'M FROM MILWAUKEE IT DON'T TAKE MUCH YEA ALL RIGHT WELL, MM-HMM GIVE THEM SOMETHING BACK THERE. I HEARD HIM. I HEARD HIM.

APPLAUSE

THEY DESERVED

>> THAT'S HOW YOU GET TO SHOUT OUT, PASTORS. ALL RIGHT. YOU READY FOR SOME MORE MUSIC? DO WE HAVE SOME PEOPLE HERE FROM SHY TOWN TODAY? WE'VE GOT THE VICTORY TRAVELS HERE, GOSPEL QUARTET, FIRST ORGANIZED BY DEACON REUBEN BURTON IN CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. THEY PERFORMED AS ARTISTS ON STAGE, RECORDING ARTISTS. THEY'VE SHARED THEIR MUSIC WITH FOLKS AT VARIOUS VENUES, INCLUDING THE CHICAGO BLUES FESTIVAL, CHICAGO GOSPEL FESTIVAL, THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES, CANADA AND FRANCE. YOU ALL LOOK GOOD OVER THERE. I DIDN'T KNOW YOU WERE COMING OUT THERE WITH SUNDAY'S BEST. BUT YOU READY? YOU GOT SOMETHING FOR US? WELCOME BACK. THEY WERE HERE LAST WEEK AND PEOPLE SAID YOU HAVE TO BRING THEM BACK. HERE THEY ARE, THE VICTORY TRAVELERS GOSPEL QUARTET.

APPLAUSE

THEY DESERVED

FOR FORGIVE ME LORD TRY ME ONE MORE TIME I KNOW I BEEN WRONG GIVE ME ONE MORE CHANCE LOOK FOR A BETTER PLACE TO LIVE LOOKING FOR A BETTER PLACE TO LIVE I'M LOOKING FOR A BETTER PLACE TO LIVE I'M LOOKING I'M SEEKING LORD, I'M PRAYING, YES, I AM YOU KNOW I'M LOOKING FOR A BETTER PLACE TO LIVE I'M LOOKING FOR A BETTER PLACE TO LIVE YOU KNOW THAT I'M LOOKING FOR A BETTER PLACE TO LIVE LOOKING FOR A BETTER PLACE TO LIVE I'M LOOKING FOR A BETTER PLACE TO LIVE I'M LOOKING FOR A BETTER PLACE TO LIVE YES, I AM YOU KNOW I'M LOOKING AND I'M SEEKING LORD, I'M PRAYING I'M LOOKING FOR A BETTER PLACE TO LIVE I'M LOOKING FOR A BETTER PLACE TO LIVE YOU KNOW THAT I'M LOOKING HERE AND THERE SEARCHING EVERYWHERE LOOKING HERE AND THERE SEARCHING EVERYWHERE LOOKING HERE AND THERE SEARCHING EVERYWHERE LOOKING HERE AND THERE SEARCHING EVERYWHERE LOOKING HERE AND THERE SEARCHING EVERYWHERE LOOKING HERE AND THERE SEARCHING EVERYWHERE LOOKING HERE AND THERE SEARCHING EVERYWHERE LOOKING HERE AND THERE SEARCHING EVERYWHERE LOOKING HERE AND THERE SEARCHING EVERYWHERE LOOKING HERE AND THERE SEARCHING EVERYWHERE LOOKING HERE AND THERE SEARCHING EVERYWHERE LOOKING HERE AND THERE SEARCHING EVERYWHERE LOOKING HERE AND THERE LOOKING HERE AND THERE LOOKING HERE AND THERE LOOKING HERE AND THERE LOOKING HERE AND THERE LOOKING HERE AND THERE LOOKING HERE AND THERE LOOKING HERE AND THERE SEARCHING EVERYWHERE SEARCHING EVERYWHERE SEARCHING EVERYWHERE SEARCHING EVERYWHERE SEARCHING EVERYWHERE SEARCHING EVERYWHERE SEARCHING EVERYWHERE SEARCHING EVERYWHERE SEARCHING EVERYWHERE SEARCHING EVERYWHERE YEAH YEA YEA YEA YEA YEA LOOKING HERE AND THERE LOOKING HERE AND THERE LOOKING HERE AND THERE LOOKING HERE AND THERE SEARCHING EVERYWHERE SEARCHING EVERYWHERE SEARCHING EVERYWHERE SEARCHING EVERYWHERE LOOK FOR A BETTER PLACE TO LIVE OOOH

CHEERS AND APPLAUSE

THEY DESERVED

>> WELL, LET'S CONTINUE THE CELEBRATION. >> NOW, LET ME HEAR THE HAND CLAP, FEEL IT ALL OVER THE PLACE. JUST CLAP THOSE HANDS LIKE THAT. COME ON, CLAP THOSE HANDS. COME ON, COME ON. CLAP A LITTLE BIT LOUDER. LET ME SING THIS SONG. SINCE HE CAME INTO MY LIFE EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED SINCE HE CAME INTO MY LIFE EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED SINCE HE CAME INTO MY LIFE EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED O YEAH LET ME SAY IT AGAIN SINCE HE CAME INTO MY LIFE EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED SINCE HE CAME INTO MY LIFE EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED SINCE HE CAME INTO MY LIFE EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED O YEAH SINCE HE CAME INTO MY LIFE EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED I'M GLAD TO SAY SINCE HE CAME INTO MY LIFE EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED O YEAH O YEAH LET ME GO ON WITH THE REST OF THE SONG I GOT A NEW WALK SINCE HE CAME I GOT A NEW TALK SINCE HE CAME I GOT A NEW WAY OF LIVING SINCE HE CAME I GOT A NEW WAY OF GIVING SINCE HE CAME I GOT A NEW WALK SINCE HE CAME I GOT A NEW TALK SINCE HE CAME I GOT A A NEW WAY OF LIVING SINCE HE CAME I GOT A NEW WAY OF GIVING SINCE HE CAME YEA CAME, CAME, YEA CHANGED ME, CHANGED ME I KNOW I'VE BEEN CHANGED I KNOW I'VE BEEN CHANGED I KNOW I'VE BEEN CHANGED I KNOW I'VE BEEN CHANGED I KNOW I'VE BEEN CHANGED I KNOW I'VE BEEN CHANGED CA YOU AGREE WITH ME I KNOW I'VE BEEN CHANGED I KNOW I'VE BEEN CHANGED I KNOW I'VE BEEN CHANGED I KNOW I'VE BEEN CHANGED I KNOW I'VE BEEN CHANGED I KNOW I'VE BEEN CHANGED I KNOW I'VE BEEN CHANGED CLAP YOUR HANDS WHY DON'T YOU DO ME A FAVOR I KNOW I'VE BEEN CHANGED I KNOW I'VE BEEN CHANGED I KNOW I'VE BEEN CHANGED I KNOW I'VE BEEN CHANGED I KNOW I'VE BEEN CHANGED NOTE >> ONE MORE TIME. I KNOW I'VE BEEN CHANGED I KNOW I'VE BEEN CHANGED I KNOW I'VE BEEN CHANGED I KNOW I'VE BEEN CHANGED I KNOW I'VE BEEN CHANGED I KNOW I'VE BEEN CHANGED I KNOW I'VE BEEN CHANGED I KNOW I'VE BEEN CHANGED I KNOW I'VE BEEN CHANGED YEA YEA YEA I KNOW I'VE BEEN CHANGED I KNOW I'VE BEEN CHANGED I KNOW I'VE BEEN CHANGED I KNOW I'VE BEEN CHANGED [CLAPPING AND INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC] YEA I KNOW I'VE BEEN CHANGED I KNOW I'VE BEEN CHANGED I KNOW I'VE BEEN CHANGED I KNOW I'VE BEEN CHANGED [CLAPPING AND INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]

CHEERS AND APPLAUSE

THEY DESERVED

>> I JUST HAVE TO SAY, I DON'T KNOW WHY THE VICTORY TRAVELERS WOULD COME UP TO MY PROGRAM, JUST TEAR IT UP LIKE THAT. THEY GOT A SPECIAL SOMETHING, DON'T THEY? PLEASE GIVE THEM ANOTHER ROUND OF APPLAUSE.

CHEERS AND APPLAUSE

THEY DESERVED

>> PATTI LOWE IS A PROFESSOR IN THE MEDILL SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AND DIRECTOR OF NU CENTER FOR NATIVE AMERICAN AND INDIGENOUS RESEARCH. DR. LOWE IS A DOCUMENTARY PRODUCER AND FORM ER BROADCAST JOURNALIST IN PUBLIC AND COMMERCIAL TELEVISION, INCLUDING "WAY OF THE WARRIOR," WHICH AIRED NATIONALLY ON PBS IN 2007 AND 2011. PROFESSOR LOWE IS A MEMBER OF THE BAD RIVER BAND OF LAKE SUPERIOR OJIBWA, THE AUTHOR OF FOUR BOOKS. ONE IS "NATIVE PEOPLE OF WISCONSIN," USED BY 18,000 WISCONSIN SCHOOL CHILDREN AS A SOCIAL STUDIES TEXTBOOK. HER WORK FEATURES ON NATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH AND DIGITAL STORYTELLING. FOR HER STEADFAST SERVICE TO OTHERS, ON BEHALF OF THE GOVERNOR'S OFFICE, I AM PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THAT PATTI LOWE IS THE RECIPIENT OF WISCONSIN'S 2019 MLK HERITAGE AWARD.

CHEERS AND APPLAUSE

SPEAKING IN OJIBWA

THEY DESERVED

>> THANK YOU. GOVERNOR EVERS, STATE OFFICIAL, DR. OVERBY, FRIENDS, MY FAMILY, INCLUDING MY MOTHER, ALICE LOWE, WHO IS IS JOINING ME TODAY. MY MOTHER IS THE INSPIRATION, THE WOMAN WHO TAUGHT ME CULTURAL HUMILITY AND WHO HAS BLESSED HER FRIENDS AND FAMILY FOR 95 YEARS.

CHEERS AND APPLAUSE

THEY DESERVED

>> I ALSO WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE PARKS FAMILY. I CAN'T IMAGINE WHAT THIS DAY MUST BE LIKE FOR YOU. I AM SO SORRY FOR YOUR LOSS AND HUMBLED BY THE LEGACY SANDRA LEFT. LIKE DR. KING, SANDRA'S LIFE WAS ENDED BY GUN VIOLENCE BEFORE SHE COULD FULFILL HER DREAM. DR. KING'S LEGACY WAS ONE OF PEACE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE. I'D LIKE TO THINK THAT IF DR. KING WERE ALIVE TODAY, HE WOULD BE WARNING US AGAINST ENVIRONMENTAL INJUSTICE, TOO. HE WOULD BE --

APPLAUSE

THEY DESERVED

>> HE WOULD BE CONCERNED ABOUT THE ASSAULTS ON OUR EARTH, ON OUR AIR, OUR WATER. THESE RESOURCES ARE PRECIOUS TO MY PEOPLE. I'VE BEEN GIFTED WITH THE OPPORTUNITY TO TELL THEIR STORIES, THE STORIES OF THESE ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDS WHO ENVISION A BETTER LIFE, THESE ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDS AND OUR NONINDIAN ALLIES, WHO TRY TO MAKE WISE DECISIONS FOR THE BENEFIT OF OUR CHILDREN, OUR GRANDCHILDREN AND BEYOND TO ON THE SEVENTH SEVENTH GENERATION. THEY PERSIST NOT JUST FOR NATIVE PEOPLE, BUT FOR ALL PEOPLE. I ACCEPT THIS AWARD IN THEIR HON OMPLET THANKHONOR. THANK YOU.

SPEAKING IN OJIBWA

APPLAUSE

THEY DESERVED

>> HER NAME IS SANDRA PARKS. IN 2016, SANDRA HAD WRITTEN AN ESSAY ABOUT GUN VIOLENCE IN HER NEIGHBORHOOD. THE MILWAUKEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS HAD HELD AN ESSAY CONTEST ABOUT DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. SANDRA, THEN A 6TH GRADER, A STUDENT AT KEEFE AVENUE MIDDLE SCHOOL IN MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, WON THIRD PLACE. SHE CHOSE TO WRITE ABOUT GUN VIOLENCE, SHE SAID, BECAUSE THE WORLD HAD FAILED TO LIVE UP TO THE CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER'S DREAM. AND SHE TITLED HER ESSAY "OUR TRUTH." JUST DAYS LEADING UP TO THE 2018 THANKSGIVING DAY HOLIDAY, AROUND 8:00 P.M., TRAGEDY CAME. SAN IS DRA WAS AT HOME IN A BEDROOM WHEN SHE WAS HIT BY A RANDOMLY-FIRED GUNSHOT FROM THE STREET. SANDRA DID NOT SURVIVE. SHE WASES JUST 13 AND FAR TOO YOUNG TO KNOW SO MUCH ABOUT DEATH LIVING IN MILWAUKEE. HER ZIP CODE, 53206. BUT TODAY, WE HAVE A GOOD STORY, BECAUSE WE HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN SANDRA PARKS.

APPLAUSE

THEY DESERVED

>> ON BEHALF OF THE GOVERNOR'S OFFICE, I AM PLEASED TO PAY TRIBUTE TO HER MEMORY BY ANNOUNCING THAT SANDRA PARKS IS POSTHUMOUSLY HONORED AS THE RECIPIENT OF THE WISCONSIN 2019 MLK HERITAGE AWARD. HER TO ACCEPT THE AWARD, PLEASE GO AHEAD.

APPLAUSE

THEY DESERVED

>> HERE TO ACCEPT THE AWARD IS HER MOTHER, BEER KNEES BERNICE PARKS.

APPLAUSE

THEY DESERVED

>> I WANT TO THANK EVERYBODY FOR BEING HERE. THANKS FOR ALLOWING ME TO COME AND ACCEPT THIS AWARD FOR MY BABY. IT'S BEEN A LONG JOURNEY, VERY HARD. I WANT TO THANK EVERYBODY FOR ALL THE PRAYERS, THE LOVE, THE GIFTS, THE CARDS. MY SON. I REALLY APPRECIATE EVERYTHING EVERYBODY HAS DONE FOR US, THE MAYOR, THE ALDERMEN. YOU GUYS HAVE REALLY BEEN A BLESSING TO MY FAMILY. I STRUGGLED SO LONG AND NOW I GOT ONE MORE STEP TO MAKE AND I'LL BE BE GOOD. I PROMISE I'M GONNA BE OKAY. MY FAMILY HELPED ME THROUGH THIS. I GOT TO ACCEPT A LOT OF THINGS AND SORT A LOT OF THINGS OUT, BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY I GOTTA KEEP GOING. SHE'S GOING TO HAVE A BOOK OF ALL HER POEMS THAT SHE WROTE AT KEEFE AVENUE. AND I'M GOING TO GET IT PUBLISHED AND YOU ALL ARE WELCOME TO BUY IT, GET IT AS A GIFT, HOWEVER YOU WANT IT. BUT JUST PLEASE, PLEASE, I'M BEGGING YOU, DON'T FORGET MY BABY. I KNOW THERE'S A LOT OF KIDS THAT PASSED AWAY.

APPLAUSE

THEY DESERVED

>> A LOT OF KIDS THAT PASSED AWAY LAST YEAR. AND I KNOW WHAT THEIR PARENTS ARE GOING THROUGH. I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD KNOW WHAT A PARENT GOING THROUGH WHEN THEY LOSING A KID. AND RIGHT NOW TODAY I FEEL LIKE SAYING HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN? AND I STILL WANT ANSWERS, MILWAUKEE. I STILL WANT ANSWERS. THAT AT THE END OF THE DAY, SANDRA'S A BLESSING. SHE WAS A BLESSING TO ME WHEN I FIRST GOT HER, WHEN GOD GAVE HER TO ME. SHE'S GOING TO CONTINUE TO BE A BLESSING ON ALL OF US. YOU ALL THOUGHT, YOU ALL WRITE IN. I KNOW A LOT OF PEOPLE BROUGHT POEMS. I APPRECIATE THAT. I HAVEN'T READ ANYTHING THAT ANYBODY SENT ME YET, BUT I PROMISE YOU WHEN I GET TIME TO SIT DOWN AND GET INTO MY NEW PLACE, WHICH I'M NOT IN YET, I REALLY WOULD LIKE TO READ THOSE POEMS AND EVERYTHING EVERYBODY GAVE ME. SO THANKS, EVERYBODY. APPRECIATE IT.

APPLAUSE

THEY DESERVED

>> WE WILL NOT, AS WE SAY IN THE CHURCH, AMEN. WE WILL NOT FORGET SANDRA PARKS. AND NOW WHERE THERE'S PAIN AND WHERE THERE'S HURT, MUSIC OFTEN COMES TO GIVE US THAT BRIDGE TO THE HEALING. AND SO ONCE AGAIN LET'S CELEBRATE IN REMEMBRANCE OF ALL THAT IS GOOD AMONG US, THE MEMORIES, THE TIMES, THE SETTINGS. VICTORY TRAVELERS, COME ON. TANG US TO THE MOUNTAINTOP. >> THERE'S A SONG I WANT TO DO. I THINK IT WILL BE FITTING THAT

SAYS

I JUST WANNA GO WHERE EVERYBODY KNOWS YOUR NAME O, AND BE GLAD THAT YOU CAME I WANT TO GO WHERE EVERYBODY KNOWS YOUR NAME >> CAN I SAY IT AGAIN I JUST WANNA GO WHERE EVERYBODY CAN HEAR YOUR NAME O YEA, O YEA THAT YOU CAME I WANNA GO WHERE EVERYBODY KNOWS YOUR NAME >> BROTHERS, HELP ME SING. I JUST WANT TO GO WHERE EVERYBODY KNOWS YOUR NAME EVERYBODY KNOWS YOUR NAME I WANT TO GO WHERE EVERYBODY KNOWS YOUR NAME I JUST WANT TO GO WHERE EVERYBODY KNOWS YOUR NAME AND BE GLAD THAT YOU CAME I WANNA GO WHERE EVERYBODY KNOWS YOUR NAME I WANNA SAY JESUS, O YEA JESUS, JESUS CAN I GET A WITNESS SAY JESUS JESUS, JESUS JESUS, JESUS I JUST WANNA GO TO HEAVEN HEAVEN, HEAVEN >> CAN ANYBODY AGREE WITH ME JUST WAVE YOUR HANDS I JUST WANNA SEE JESUS, JESUS, JESUS LORD JESUS O JESUS, O JESUS, O JESUS CAN I DO IT AGAIN MASTER, SAVIOUR, JESUS JESUS, JESUS REDEEMER, SAVIOUR JESUS, JESUS JESUS, JESUS JESUS, JESUS JESUS, JESUS JESUS, JESUS JESUS, JESUS JESUS, JESUS JESUS, JESUS JESUS, JESUS JESUS, JESUS JESUS, JESUS JESUS, JESUS I JUST WANT TO GO WHERE EVERYBODY KNOWS YOUR NAME I JUST WANT TO GO WHERE EVERYBODY KNOWS YOUR NAME I JUST WANNA GO WHERE EVERYBODY KNOWS YOUR NAME JUST LIFT YOUR HAND AND SAY AND BE GLAD THAT YOU CAME O, I WANNA GO WHERE EVERYBODY KNOWS YOUR NAME O, O, O, I WANNA GO WHERE WITH EVERYBODY KNOWS, KNOWS YOUR NAME GRAB SOMEBODY'S HAND THAT'S SITTING BESIDE YOU AND LOOK AT THEM EYEBALL TO EYEBALL AND

SIGH

I WANNA GO WHERE EVERYBODY KNOWS YOUR NAME

APPLAUSE

SIGH

OOOH YEA EVERYBODY'S NAME OOOH MY NAME, YEA, YEA O YEA ALL RIGHT

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>> YOU MESSIN' WITH ME NOW. I'M UPSET. >> IT WOULD BE REMISS NOT TO ANNOUNCE THAT KEEFE AVENUE MIDDLE SCHOOL IS HERE TO REPRESENT TODAY THE PRINCIPAL, DR. CHRISTLYN STANLEY IS HERE AS WELL. THEY CAME UP FROM MILWAUKEE. THERE SHE IS. AND LET'S GIVE HER AND ALL THE STUDENTS WHO CAME FROM KEEFE AVENUE MIDDLE SCHOOL, SANDRA PARKS' SCHOOL IN MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN. GIVE THEM A BIG MADISON WELCOME, PLEASE.

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>> AND NOW IT IS MY PLEASURE TO INTRODUCE OUR GUEST SPEAKER, RITA COBURN, A PEABODY AND EMMY AWARD-WINNING DIRECTOR, WRITER AND PRODUCER WITH NEARLY FOUR DECADES IN RADIO, TELEVISION AND FILM. BEGINNING HER CAREER AS A PRODUCER AND WRITER FOR VARIOUS NEWS OUTLETS ACROSS THE U.S., COBURN WENT ON TO PRODUCE FOR THE LIGHTS OF THE OPRAH WINFREY SHOW, OPRAH RADIO, APOLLO LIVE AND WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS. IN 2016 MAYA ANGELOU "AND STILL I RISE," CODIRECTED AND PRODUCED BY COBURN. IT PREM MEERD AT PREMIERED AT THE 2017 SUNDANCE FESTIVAL AND WON A PEABODY AWARD IN 2017. COBURN'S VALUE IS SUCH THAT SHE BRIDGES THE GAP BETWEEN GENERATIONS BY PRESERVING AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY THROUGH HER WORK. SHE ADDRESSES TOPICS FROM MULTIGENERATIONAL LENS WITH A PASSION FOR IMPACTING OTHERS THROUGH THE UNTOLD STORIES OF PROMINENT FIGURES AND KEY IDEALS RELEVANT TO AFRICAN-AMERICAN CULTURE. AFTER A SELECTION BY THE MLK WOMEN'S MASS CHOIR, THE NEXT VOICE THAT YOU WILL HEAR IS THAT OF RITA COBURN. HERE AGAIN IS MUSIC DIRECTOR BECCA MAY GRANT AT THE PIANO WITH THE MLK WOMEN'S MASS CHOIR WITH TAMERA STANLEY CONDUCTING.

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>> ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL. THIS WHOLE AFFAIR, THIS WHOLE CELEBRATION. TO THE WOMEN WHO HAVE JUST LIFTED THEIR VOICES, ALL THE PERFORMERS, GOVERNOR TONY EVERS, PAUL SOGLIN, DR. JONATHAN AND AMY OVERBY, OFFICIALS, CLERGY, LISTENERS, VIEWERS AND ALL OF YOU. YOUR ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF THE BIRTH, THE LIFE AND THE DEATH OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. MEANS THAT WE ARE ALL FROM THE SAME TRIBE. WE ARE THE EVIDENCE THAT TRUTH IS MARCHING. IT IS A WEST AFRICAN CONCEPT THAT WE LIVE LIFE ON THREE LEVELS. BUT LIVING LIKE YOU AND I, RESPONSIBLE FOR THE TIMES WE ARE IN. THE LIVING DEAD LIKE JESUS AND GHANDI, RELATIVES THAT HAVE BECOME ANCESTORS, BUT ANYONE DECEASED BUT WHOM WE SPEAK ABOUT. AND LASTLY THE DEAD AND GONE, THE PEOPLE ON EARTH WHERE NOBODY UTTERS THEIR NAME. YOU ARE HERE TO KEEP THE MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. ADEALS ALIVE. AS WE FOCUS ON WOMEN, WE MUST ACKNOWLEDGE THAT WOMEN HAVE TAKEN NOAMENTS THIS MOMENTS IN THIS SOCIETY AND CHANGED THEM INTO MOVEMENT FOR CHANGE IN THE WORLD. AS WE TOUCH OUR HUMANITY WE CAN SEE OUR LIVES IN THE LIVES OF ORDINARY WOMEN. WE CAN SEE OUR POWER. FOR OUR YOUTH AND OUT OF RESPECT TO HISTORY AND HER STORY, ALLOW ME TO GO BACK SO THAT WE CAN PRESS FORWARD. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. WOULD CALL THE MURDER OF 14-YEAR-OLD EMMETT TILL IN 1955, WHO WAS ACCUSED OF WHISTLING AT A WHITE WOMAN, ONE OF THE WORST CRIMES OF THE CENTURY. KING WOULD USE THE TILL MURDER AS AN EXAMPLE OF THE EVILS OF RACIAL INJUSTICE. BUT IT WAS MAMIE TILL, A GRIEVING MOTHER, WHO WOULD CALL WORLDWIDE ATTENTION TO HER SON'S BLOATED, BEATEN FACE, AN APPALLING VISION OF RACIAL INJUSTICE. A MOTHER'S GRIEF PRIMED A MOVEMENT. I AM FROM CHICAGO AND KNOW THAT IN 2019 AFRICAN-AMERICAN MOTHERS ALL OVER THIS COUNTRY ARE STILL GRIEVING THE WRONGFUL DEATH OF THEIR SONS AND DAUGHTERS. AS WE BUILD OUR TRIBE, AWAKENED WOMEN AND MEN MUST LIFT THEIR VOICES ACROSS AISLES AND RACIAL LINES FOR THESE INJUSTICES TO STOP. ONLY OUR SINCERE ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF HUMANITY CAN CREATE AN EFFECTIVE CALL TO ACTION. LIKE MAMIE TILL'S WAILS FOR HER SON, WE AS THE WOMEN, THE MOTHERS, THE SISTERS OF THIS TIME MUST EXCAVATE OUR VOICES, SOUND A POWERFUL BATTLE CRY AND MARCH FOR TRUTH. THREE MONTHS AFTER MAMIE TILL CREATED AN INTERNATIONAL STAGE BY CALLING ATTENTION TO HER SON'S MURDER, MARTIN LUTHER KING WOULD RISE AS A NATIONAL FIGURE AS THE LEADER OF THE MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT. ROSA PARKER WAS NOT THE FIRST TO REFUSE TO GIVE UP HER SEAT. REFUSALS WERE OFTEN FOLLOWED BY ARREST. BYE JUSTBUT JUST PRIOR TO PARK'S' A 15-YEAR-OLD GIRL WAS ARRESTED BEFORE SHE REFUSED TO GIVE UP HER SEAT. SHE WAS 15 AND PREGNANT. IT WAS THE COMPASSION OF THE NEGRO COMMUNITY THAT LULLED THE INHUMANTY OF ARRESTING A YOUNG PREGNANT WOMAN. WE CARED ABOUT OUR CHILDREN. THAT ACT STIRRED THE CHAOS OF MANY PEOPLE WHO HAD BEEN STUMBLING AROUND IN THE DEEP, DARK WELL OF RACISM. THEY HAD STARTED TO LOOK FOR THE LIGHT AND ROSA PARKS FOUND THE SWITCH. WHEN SHE SAT DOWN, A NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL MOVEMENT BEGAN BECAUSE MEDIA COVERAGE WAS WORLDWIDE, DONATIONS TO FIGHT THIS INJUSTICE CAME FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD. OUR CHOICE TO STAND OR SIT WILL CHANGE THE TIMES WE LIVE IN. AS WOMEN, I WANT TO ENCOURAGE YOU TO BY ALL MEANS GROW TIRED OF WHAT IS WRONG IN OUR SOCIETY. YOUR TIREDNESS CREATES SOME OF THE BEST BOOTS AND HEELS ON THE GROUND. IT IS NOT FATIGUE, IT IS AN INDICATION THAT YOU HAVE THE ABILITY TO CHANGE THE WORLD.

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>> KING HAD STUDIED GHANDI, BUT MANY OF THE LESS EDUCATED PEOPLE IN THE SOUTH DIDN'T KNOW WHO GHANDI WAS. A WELL-RESPECTED, WELL TO DO WHITE WOMAN, A LIBRARIAN WHO BEGAN TO INTEGRATE BIBLE STUDIES IN THE NEGRO COMMUNITY AND WOULD START TO PULL EMERGENCY STOPS WHEN BUS DRIVERS WOULD IGNORE COLORED PASSENGERS. JULIETTE MORGAN LIKENED KING'S MOVEMENT TO GHANDI AND SHE WROTE THE NEWSPAPERS TO SAY SO. AS A RESULT OF HER PEN, THE ENTIRE SOUTH AND MANY PEOPLE WORLDWIDE BEGAN TO ACKNOWLEDGE GHANDI'S PHILOSOPHY ON NONVIOLENT SOCIAL CHANGE. MORGAN WROTE "IT IS HARD TO IMAGINE A SOUL SO DEAD, A HEART SO HARD, A VISION SO BLINDED AND PROVINCIAL AS NOT TO BE MOVED WITH ADMIRATION AT THE QUIET DIGNITY, DISCIPLINE AND DEDICATION WITH WHICH THE NEGROES HAVE CONDUCTED THEIR BOYCOTT." UNFORTUNATELY, THEY BECAME A VICTIM OF CROSS BURNING, WAS HARASSED BY THE RACIST COMMUNITY UNTIL HER UNTIMELY DEATH. FREEDOM CONTINUES TO BE A COSTLY FIGHT. AS WE PAUSE TO REMEMBER MAMIE TILL, PARKS AND MORGAN, HUMANITY IS JUXTAPOSED AGAINST THE INHUMANTY OF RACISM. WE MUST CONTINUE TO MARCH FOR TRUTH, RECOVERING FROM OUR CASUALTIES. WE HAVE OPENED CASKETS, USED OUR PENCE, STOOD UP AND SAT DOWN. WE HAVE USED MOMENTS TO LAUNCH A MOVEMENT. IN THE SPIRIT OF COL VIN, I HEAR YOU, OUR YOUNG PEOPLE. AS PART OF THIS TRIBE YOU FORM A REGIMENT FOR TRUTH AND YOU ARE CAPABLE OF DISCERNING WHAT IS WRONG AND WHAT IS RIGHT IN THIS COUNTRY. WE HEAR YOUR VOICES WHEN BLACK LIVES MATTERED NOT ONLY MARCHES, BUT BY HOUSES TO RENOVATE FOR LOW-INCOME FAMILIES. WE HEAR YOU WHEN YOU TAKE TO THE PODIUM AND CHALLENGE THE NATION'S GUN LAWS BECAUSE YOUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS AND CLASSMATES HAVE BEEN KILLED. WE SEE YOU WHEN YOU VOTE. KING SAID "HE WHO PASSIVELY ACCEPTS EVIL IS AS MUCH INVOLVED IN IT AS THE ONE WHO PERPETRATES IT." "HE WHO ACCEPTS EVIL WITHOUT PROTESTING AGAINST IT IS REALLY COOPERATING WITH IT. AS WOMEN, MEN AND CHILDREN WE MUST NOT COOPERATE WITH EVIL. WE MUST CHALLENGE EVIL IN ORDER TO DESTROY IT. TO THE LGBTQ COMMUNITY, MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. WAS QUESTIONED ABOUT HIS SUPPORT OF RESTON'S HOMOSEXUALITY. HE LED PROTEST MARCHES IN THE UNITED STATES DURING THE '40s AND WORKED TO BETTER THE CONDITION OF THE UNTOUCHABLES IN INDIA. KING WROTE WE ARE COMMITTED TO THE METHOD OF NONVIOLENCE IN OUR STRUGGLE AND HIS COMMITMENT IN THIS AREA WILL BE OF IN ES ESTEEMABLE VALUE. AS WOMEN WE WERE NOT RESPECTED IN THE EARLY YEARS OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. YET AS WE MARCH NOW, WE MARCH AT A DIFFERENT TIME, WHEN ONE OF OUR CHALLENGES IS TO FULLY RESPECT ONE ANOTHER. WE WILL HAVE DIFFERENCES. OUR GOAL IS TO INCREASE THE TRIBE, NO THE TO ALIENATE OTHERS.

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>> THANK YOU. I SAY THIS KNOWING THAT IT WILL BE HARD FOR SOME OF US TO ACCEPT OTHERS OF US. WHILE UNDERSTANDING AND FRIENDSHIP OCCURS ONE HEART AT A TIME, LET'S AGREE THAT ALL OUR HUMAN RIGHTS MUST BE FOUGHT FOR AND RESPECTED.

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>> WHEN THE 116TH CONGRESS CONVENED ON JANUARY 3, 132 WOMEN FROM BOTH SIDES OF THE AISLE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE THEIR SEAT. AND WHILE THAT'S 24% OF THE POPULATION OF WHICH WOMEN MAKE UP 51%, WE ARE MOVING DOWN WHAT ACTIVISTS AND OUR LATE QUEEN OF SOUL CALLED BETTER THAN EVER STREET. FOR MANY STATES, THESE WOMEN ARE THE FIRST WOMEN TO TAKE SEATS IN OUR CONGRESS. THEY ARE BLACK, WHITE, SOMALI, NATIVE AMERICAN. THEY WILL SERVE AND THEY WILL IDENTIFY AS VETERAN, OPENLY BISEXUAL, GAY, MARRIED, DIVORCED AND SINGLE. THEY WILL BE SO YOUNG, AT 29, THAT MAYA ANGELOU WOULD HAVE CALLED HER NEW AS MORNING. AND THEY WILL SERVE WITH VETERANS SUCH AS MAXINE WATERS, WHOSE 40 YEARS OF CONGRESSIONAL EXPERIENCE IS WELL-RESPECTED. THEY ARE CHRISTIAN, JEWISH, CATHOLIC AND MUSLIM, CAREER POLITICIANS, FORMER STEWARDESTS, ONE HAVING LOST BOTH LEGS IN OUR MILITARY, ANOTHER A SON TO VIOLENCE ON THE STREET. THEY ARE BREAST CANCER SURVIVORS. THEY WILL JOIN MEAN IN MEN IN CONGRESS. THEY WILL MAKE MISTAKES. THEY WILL STUMBLE. THEY WILL NOT BE THE FIRST NOR THE LAST TO DO SO. BUT WITH UNDERSTANDING, WE MUST SHOULDER THEM UP BECAUSE WE ARE THEIR KEEPERS AND WE MUST MARCH ON ALL FRONTS. WHEN AVA DIRECTED SELL SELMA, SHE OPENED THE FILM WITH THE GIRLS KILLED IN THE BOMBING. WHEN SHE DIRECTED TAKING ON THE 13TH AMENDMENT AND VOTER SUPPRESSION THROUGH THE LACK OF EX-CON VICTS HAVING VOTER RIGHTS, WE ARE WITNESSING THE RIGHT OF FORMER CONVICTS TO VOTE IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA.

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>> OUR VOICES HAVE BEEN RAISED WITH THE ME 2 MOVEMENT THAT BURKE BEGAN. AS BLACK, BROWN AND WHITE WOMEN, WE ARE STANDING UP AGAINST SEXUAL PREDATORS IN THE WORKPLACE. MY SKIN IS NOT THE BEAUTY OF, BUT THE BEAUTY OF A LIGHTER HUE. I AM THREE GENERATIONS REMOVED FROM SLAVERY. MY SKIN COLOR DID NOT COME FROM CONSENSUAL SEX IN THE WORKPLACE. THE VERY SHADE OF THE BROWNNESS OF OUR PEOPLE IS OUR SKIN BLOOD EVIDENCE THAT WE YOUR COUSINS, WE YOUR KIN, WE YOUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS.

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>> YOU AND I ARE THE SECOND WAVE, THE WOMEN OF ENCOURAGEMENT, CALLING THIS WORLD TO ACTION, GRANDMOTHERS WITH GAVELS AND LAW KEEPERS OF COLOR FROM TEXAS TO NEW YORK. AS WE INCREASE OUR ACHIEVEMENTS, WE WILL CHANGE THE LAWS AND CHANGE OUR EVERYDAY CIRCUMSTANCES. THIS IS HOW WE ARE CHANGING THE WORLD. AS SOJOURNER TRUTH SAID, TRUTH IS POWERFUL AND IT PREVAILS. AS ORDINARY WOMEN, EACH ONE OF US MUST TAKE MOMENTS IN HISTORY AND TURN THEM INTO MOVEMENTS GREAT AND SMALL. PREVAIL. AS MAYA ANGELOU SAID, YOU ALONE ARE ENOUGH. THAT MEANS TOGETHER WE ARE MORE THAN ENOUGH. AS OPRAH WINFREY SAYS, YOU DON'T GET WHAT YOU GET. YOU GET WHAT YOU BELIEVE. BELIEF CAUSES US TO TAKE ACTION. IN THE LATE '60s IN OUR SOUTH SUBURBAN CHICAGO HOME I WATCH MY PARENTS STAND STRAIGHTER WHEN THEY TALKED ABOUT MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. THEY SAID IT WAS A MINISTER FOR BETTER HOUSING AND INTEGRATED SCHOOLS. LATER AS MY MOTHER SNAPPED BEANS AT THE KITCHEN TABLE, I HEARD THEM LAMENT THE FACT THAT OUR DICK AND JANE READERS FROM FIRST GRADE FOLLOWED US TO SECOND GRADE AND NOW WE HAVE THEM AGAIN IN THIRD GRADE. THEY HAD BEEN FIGHTING FOR DESEG RATION FOR TEN YEARS. TIRED OF OUR SEPARATE BUT UNEQUAL EDUCATION, NOT IN THE SOUTH, BUT IN THE SOUTH SUBURBS OF CHICAGO, OUR BLUE COLOR TOWN BELIEVED THEY COULD CHANGE OUR CIRCUMSTANCES. THEY WORKED TOGETHER, FINALLY INTEGRATING THE SCHOOLS AFTER MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.'S DEATH IN 1968. OUTFITTED IN OUR BEST SCHOOL CLOTHES AND OUR HAIR SLICK WITH PEACH POM MADE, WE DREAMED ABOUT WHAT WHITE PEOPLE WOULD LOOK LIKE UP CLOSE. WE PRESENTED OUR JUMP ROPES AS A GESTURE OF FRIENDSHIP. OUR PARENTS WAVED US ON TO THE BUS AND WENT ON TO THEIR JOBS. BUT OUR BUS ARRIVED TO WHITE WOMEN AND MEN CALLING US NAMES WE'D NOT BEEN CALLED BEFORE. THEY LINED THE WALK TO THE DOOR OF EISENHOWER SCHOOL AND WE TREMBLED OUR WAY INTO A PLACE WHERE WE WERE SUPPOSED TO LEARN. I TOLD THAT STORY RECENTLY AND HAD A WOMAN WHO CONSIDERED HERSELF TO BE LIBERAL ASK DIDN'T YOUR PARENTS PREPARE YOU? THAT IS THE MODERN DAY DEFINITION OF WHITE PRIVILEGE. AND WHAT JAMES BALDWIN CALLED THESE YET TO BE UNITED STATES. IT MEANS A CAR, A COFFEE SHOP, A DORM OR A HOTEL COULD BE OUR UNDOING. THIS ERRANT REALITY IN THE MINDS OF SOME PEOPLE, THE VERY IDEA THAT VICTIMS OF RACISM ARE SOMEHOW RESPONSIBLE FOR IT AND PERPETRATORS OF RACISM ARE JUST SIMPLY LIVING LIFE OUGHT TO MAKE YOU WANT TO PUT YOUR BOOTS ON. I HAVE A FLYER YOU CAN DISSEMINATE IN THE WORDS OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. THE STORM IS RISING AGAINST THE PRIVILEGED MINORITY OF THE EARTH FROM WHICH THERE IS NO SHELTER IN ISOLATION OR ARM AMOUNT A. AND YOU TOLD US THE STORM WILL NOT ABATE UNTIL A JUST DISTRIBUTION OF THE FRUITS OF EARTH ENABLES MEN AND WOMEN EVERYWHERE TO LIVE IN DIGNITY AND HUMAN DECENCY. IN RACISM, THE FIRST ATTACK IS ALWAYS AGAINST DIGNITY AND HUMAN DECENCY. AND IT'S NOT UP TO BLACKS ALONE TO FIGHT FOR OUR FREEDOM, BUT FOR WHITES TO RECOGNIZE AND DENOUNCE PRIVILEGE IN ORDER TO CREATE CHANGE.

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>> UNTIL BLACK AND BROWN CHILDREN STOP MARKING THE LOSS OF THEIR INNOCENCE WITH THE DAY THAT THEY REALIZED THAT THEY ARE BEING MARGINALIZED IN THIS SOCIETY, AND UNTIL WHITE CHILDREN STOP INGESTING THE MISPERCEPTION THAT THIS SOCIETY RENDERS THEM PRIVILEGED AND BETTER THAN, AND UNTIL WE CARE FOR BROWN CHILDREN AT THE BORDER OF MEXICO AS IF THEY WERE IN OUR OWN ARMS, WE MUST CONTINUE TO MARCH OUT OF DARKNESS

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>> AS WE ACKNOWLEDGE MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.'S COMMITMENT TO HIS FAITH, WE START SIMPLY WITH THE FIRST WORDS OF THE BIBLE." IN THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED." THOSE WORDS MEANING THAT ALL OF US BORN IN THE IMAGE OF GOD ARE FIRST AND FOREMOST CREATORS. WE ARE AS THE MOTHERS OF THE CHURCH SAID ABLE TO MAKE A WAY OUT OF NO WAY. WE CAN LOOK INTO NOTHING CHAOS AND ALL MANNER OF DARKNESS, CONFUSION AND THE UNDEFINED BEFORE US AND KNOW EVEN IN OUR CHILDHOOD THAT WE CONSTITUTE CHANGE. SO THE YOUNG BOY THAT WOULD LATER WALK BY TREES WHERE THE BODIES MUCH OF NEGROES HAD HUNG, WHO HAD WITNESSED POLICE BRUTALITY WITH HIS OWN EYES AS WELL AS AS SEEING THE KU KLUX KLAN RIDE AT NIGHT, HE KNEW HE HAD SEEN CHAOS. I HAD COME CLOSE TO RESENTING ALL WHITE PEOPLE. I WANT TO ISSUE YOUR UNIFORMS FOR THE MARCH WITH THESE INSTRUCTIONS. YOU CAN MARCH WITH PASSION, BUT YOU CANNOT MARCH EFFECTIVELY WITH RESENTMENT. HAD MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. RESENTED WHITES, WE WOULD NOT BE HERE. HAD HE BEING ECONOMICALLY SECURE AND WELL-EDUCATED HAD NOT HAD A HEART FOR THE POVERTY-STRICKEN REGARDLESS OF COLOR, WE MIGHT NOT BE HERE. YOUNG KING KNEW THE BIBLE STORY OF HATE THAT KILLED A BROTHER. WHEN CAIN KILLED ABEL HE WAS ASKED BY GOD WHERE IS YOUR BROTHER. KING MADE A DECISION TO LOVE BECAUSE HE KNEW HATE CAUSES YOUR SOUL TO BE QUESTIONED BY GOD. AND THE LIE YOU TELL YOURSELF AND OTHERS BY SAYING "I DON'T KNOW" CALLS YOU TO HAVE THE ARROGANCE TO QUESTION GOD. ABEL'S FUTILE "AM I MY BROTHER'S KEEPER" IS THE RESPONSE. WE ARE ALL OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS KEEPERS. THE FINAL QUESTION HE ASKED IS THE QUESTION WE ALL MUST ASK OURSELVES." WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?" SO I ASK YOU, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO BRING ABOUT JUSTICE? WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ERADICATE RACISM? DO YOU AS A PERSON, A GOVERNMENT, A CORPORATION INCLUDE AND VALUE BLACK AND BROWN PEOPLE IN YOUR THOUGHT AND MANAGEMENT AND PLANNING PROCESS? HAVE YOU HIRED US IN YOUR FIRMS, YOUR STORES, MADE SPACE IN THE SCHOOL AND ADMINISTRATION? HAVE YOU ASKED THE QUESTION IN YOUR COMMUNITY OR EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM WHEN YOU WALK INTO SEGREGATED SITUATIONS, WHY DOES THIS COMPANY, THIS SCHOOL, THIS GUILD, THIS UNION, THIS FOUNDATION NOT LOOK LIKE THE WORLD? ASK QUESTIONS. MAKE CHANGES. HAVE YOU PERSONALLY GONE PAST THE OPTICS OF DIVERSITY TO INCLUSION? JUST AS WE ARE EACH OTHER'S KEEPERS, EACH OF US CAN AND MUST DO SOMETHING, SINCE SILENCE HAS A VOICE. WHEN CANI FAILED TO ANSWER THE QUESTION "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE," GOD SAID, LISTEN, YOUR BROTHER'S BLOOD CRIES OUT FROM THE GROUND. I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, BUT IF TRUTH IS MARCHING, I HEAR BLOOD. 400 YEARS AGO IN 1619, WHEN THE SOULS OF MY ANCESTORS' BLOODY FEET STILL IN SHACKLES TOUCHED AMERICAN SOIL, THEY UNDERSTOOD IT WAS A SHAMEFUL ENTRY. THEY KNEW THAT THERE WAS NO BEAUTY IN SHACKLES, NOTHING PRECIOUS ABOUT THE KIND OF CHAIN THAT HANGS AROUND THE NECK OF A MAN, A WOMAN OR A CHILD. IT IS THE SHACKLE THAT STILL COMES WHEN ONE BROTHER BELIEVES HE IS BETTER THAN ANOTHER, WHEN A SISTER OR BROTHER STILLS KILLS THE DREAMS OF THIS COUNTRY AND PUTS LASHES ACROSS THE SOULS OF HIS BROTHERS AND SISTERS. THOSE ANCESTORS, THEIRS WERE THE FIRST STEPS IN TRUTH MARCHING, AND OUR TASK IS TO MAKE SURE TRUTH ARRIVES. IN 1955, AFTER BEING EDUCATED AT MOOREHOUSE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. AND HIS WIFE MADE A PRAYERFUL DECISION TO RETURN WITH THEIR FAMILY TO THE HATE-FILLED SOUTH INSTEAD OF STAYING NORTHEAST WITH HOPES FOR A BETTER LIFE. WHEN MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. WAS CALLED TO ALABAMA TO THE DEXTER AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH, I BELIEVE HE HEARD BLOOD. WHEN I WORKED WITH MAYA ANGELOU FOR OPRAH RADIO FROM 2006 TO 2010 WE WOULD OFTEN DISCUSS HER RELATIONSHIP WITH MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. SHE SAW HIM SPEAK AT RIVERSIDE BAPTIST CHURCH IN NEW YORK IN THE '60s AND WAS MOVED TO ORGANIZE ARTISTS IN THE COMMUNITY TO RAISE MONEY FOR THE SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE. SHE WOULD LATER BECOME THEIR NORTHERN COORDINATOR. SHE REMEMBERED KING FONDLY AS A MAN WHO LIKED TO PLAY PRACTICAL JOKES AND HAD A HEALTHY SENSE OF HUMOR. IN 2006, MAYA ANGELOU AND I ATTENDED THE CEREMONY FOR THE MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. MEMORIAL IN WASHINGTON D.C. LATER, MAYA ANGELOU TOOK ISSUE WITH THE INSCRIPTION ON THE MONUMENT TAKEN FROM A SPEECH HE GAVE TWO MONTHS FROM TO HIS ASSASSINATION. IT ORIGINALLY READ IF YOU WANT TO SAY THAT I WAS A DRUM MAJOR, SAY THAT I WAS A DRUM MAJOR FOR JUSTICE, FOR PEACE, FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS AND ALL OF THE OTHER SHALLOW THINGS WILL NOT MATTER. BUT THE INSCRIPTION ON THE MONUMENT READ "I WAS A DRUM MAJOR FOR JUSTICE." MAYA ANGELOU FOUND THE MISSION OF IF YOU WANT TO SAY OBJECTIONABLE AND SO I GOT A PHONE CALL. MAYA ANGELOU HAD A HABIT OF CALLING AND SAYING, IT IS I, MAYA ANGELOU, AS IF I WOULD EVER MISTAKE HER VOICE. AND I WOULD SAY, HELLO, DOCTOR. ON THIS DAY SHE SAID, PEOPLE ARE MAKING A BIG DEAL OVER SOMETHING THEY SAY I SAID REGARDING MARTIN. I SAID, WHAT WAS THAT? SHE SAID, THEY SAID I SAID THE INSCRIPTION ON THE MONUMENT IN D.C. MADE HIM SOUND LIKE AN ARROGANT TWIT. I SAID, HMM. I DON'T KNOW ANYONE ELSE THAT WOULD PUT THOSE TWO WORDS TOGETHER. THEY SAID, OKAY, I SAID IT. NOW WHAT DO WE DO? I SAID, SPEAK TO THE MEDIA. SHE SAID, I WILL NOT BE A TEMPTRESS IN A TEAPOT. THEN I SAID CHOOSE WHO YOU WILL SPEAK TO. SHE SAID I'LL HAVE THAT YOUNG DON LEMON. I LIKE HIM VERY MUCH. AND ONE MORE, NOT ANOTHER. AFTER THAT, THE TRUE MIGRATIONS BEGAN BECAUSE THE INSCRIPTION ON THAT MONUMENT WAS CHANGED. WHAT WE DO AS WOMEN IS IMPORTANT. WHATEVER THE STRENGTH OF YOUR VOICE, YOUR REACH OR YOUR ABILITY, LET'S USE THE POWER THAT WE HAVE. I SEE YOU. I SEE YOUR TIREDNESS AS WELL AS SOME OF YOU YOU THAT HAVE THE JOY OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND LOVE. I SEE YOU SINGLE, DIVORCED, MARRIED. I SEE THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN ABUSED. SOME OF US ENTERING THE THICK OF OR FRESH OUT OF A STORM. BUT KNOW THAT ALL OF YOUR GOOD AND ALL YOUR BAD ONLY QUALIFY YOU TO MARCH. AS YOU MARCH, YOU WILL FIND OUT MORE ABOUT YOURSELF AND WE WILL FIND OUT MORE ABOUT EACH OTHER AS HUMAN BEINGS. AS I STAND HERE, I THANK MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., WHO COULD HAVE BEEN 90 YEARS OLD AND ENJOYING HIS GRANDCHILDREN, BUT INSTEAD HE SACRIFICED HIS LIFE. I THANK MY DECEASED FATHER, CHARLIE, AND MY 96-YEAR-OLD MOTHER WILLIE FOR RAISING ME, A BLACK CHILD, IN WHAT WAS THOUGHT TO BE A WHITE AMERICA. I AM REMINDED THAT MY MOTHER'S FATHER WAS BORN INTO SLAVERY AND HE WAS TAUGHT TO READ BY TWO WHITE WOMEN THAT DECIDED TO BREAK RANK WITH THE NORM OF THEIR DAY. WHEN HE BECAME FREE AT EIGHT YEARS OLD, HE CONTINUED TO READ AND TO STUDY. HE WAS KNOWN AS AN ORATOR AND EVENTUALLY HE WOULD SPEAK IN THE BLACK CHURCH ON THE FIRST AND THIRD SUNDAY AND TEACH SUNDAY SCHOOL AT THE WHITE CHURCH TO CHILDREN ON THE SECOND AND FOURTH SUNDAY. I THANK THOSE TWO PEOPLE I WILL NEVER KNOW. IT IS IN THEIR SPIRIT THAT I STAND HERE. AS MAYA ANGELOU WOULD SAY, I COME AS ONE AND I STAND AS 10,000. MAY THE ANCESTORS BE PLEASED WITH OUR TIME TOGETHER. AS TRUTH MARCHES, I AM PROUD TO BE A MEMBER OF YOUR TRIBE. I SEE YOU. I JOIN YOU. I HEAR BLOOD, EVEN LOUDER, I HEAR YOUR VOICE. LOUD ONLOUDER STILL, I HEAR YOUR POWER. LOUDEST OF ALL, I HEAR OUR FUTURE AND OUR FUTURE IS THE TRUTH. THANK YOU.

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>> ALL RIGHT NOW. RITA COBURN, THANK YOU. AND THANK YOU.

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AND NOW, PRESENTING AN ADAPTED EXCERPT FROM DR. KING'S 1963 SPEECH, "I HAVE A DREAM," HERE ARE 7TH GRADE STUDENTS JADA MATSON, CHELSIE USCANGA AND TADARIA ROSS, ALL FROM JAMES C. WRIGHT MIDDLE SCHOOL IN MADISON, WISCONSIN.

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>> PLEASE WELCOME THE MIDDLE SCHOOL SCHOLARS DREAM TEAM.

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>> AND EVEN SO, WE FACE THE DIFFICULTIES OF TODAY AND TOMORROW, I STILL HAVE A DREAM. IT IS A DREAM DEEPLY ROOTED IN THE AMERICAN DREAM. I HAVE A DREAM THAT ONE DAY THIS NATION WILL RISE UP AND LIVE OUT

THE TRUE MEANING OF ITS CREED

"WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE

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THAT ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL." I HAVE A DREAM THAT ONE DAY ON THE RED HILLS OF GEORGIA THE SONS OF FORMER SLAVES AND THE SONS OF FORMER SLAVE OWNERS WILL BE ABLE TO SIT DOWN TOGETHER AT THE TABLE OF BROTHERHOOD. I HAVE A DREAM THAT ONE DAY EVEN THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI, A STATE SWELTERING WITH THE HEAT OF INJUSTICE, SWELTERING WITH THE HEAT OF OPPRESSION, WILL BE TRANSFORMED INTO AN OASIS OF FREEDOM AND JUSTICE. >> I HAVE A DREAM THAT MY FOUR LITTLE CHILDREN WILL ONE DAY LIVE IN A NATION WHERE THEY WILL NOT BE JUDGED BY THE COLOR OF THEIR SKIN BUT BY THE CONTENT OF THEIR CHARACTER. I HAVE A DREAM TODAY. I HAVE A DREAM THAT ONE DAY, DOWN IN ALABAMA, WITH ITS VICIOUS RACISTS, WITH ITS GOVERNOR HAVING HIS LIPS DRIPPING WITH THE WORDS OF INTERPOSITION AND NULLIFICATION; ONE DAY RIGHT THERE IN ALABAMA, LITTLE BLACK BOYS AND BLACK GIRLS WILL BE ABLE TO JOIN HANDS WITH LITTLE WHITE BOYS AND WHITE GIRLS AS SISTERS AND BROTHERS. I HAVE A DREAM TODAY. I HAVE A DREAM THAT ONE DAY EVERY VALLEY SHALL BE EXALTED, AND EVERY HILL AND MOUNTAIN SHALL BE MADE LOW, THE ROUGH PLACES WILL BE MADE PLAIN, AND THE CROOKED PLACES WILL BE MADE STRAIGHT, AND THE GLORY OF THE LORD SHALL BE REVEALED, AND ALL FLESH SHALL SEE IT TOGETHER. THIS IS OUR HOPE, AND THIS IS THE FAITH THAT I GO BACK TO THE SOUTH WITH. WITH THIS FAITH WE WILL BE ABLE TO HEW OUT OF THE MOUNTAIN OF DESPAIR A STONE OF HOPE. WITH THIS FAITH WE WILL BE ABLE TO TRANSFORM THE JANGLING DISCORDS OF OUR NATION INTO A BEAUTIFUL SYMPHONY OF BROTHERHOOD. WITH THIS FAITH WE WILL BE ABLE TO WORK TOGETHER, TO PRAY TOGETHER, TO STRUGGLE TOGETHER, TO GO TO JAIL TOGETHER, TO STAND UP FOR FREEDOM TOGETHER, KNOWING THAT WE WILL BE FREE ONE DAY. AND THIS WILL BE THE DAY WHEN ALL OF GOD'S CHILDREN WILL BE ABLE TO SING WITH A NEW MEANING, "MY COUNTRY, 'TIS OF THEE, SWEET LAND OF LIBERTY, OF THEE I SING. LAND WHERE MY FATHERS DIED, LAND OF THE PILGRIM'S PRIDE, FROM EVERY MOUNTAINSIDE, LET FREEDOM RING." AND IF AMERICA IS TO BE A GREAT NATION THIS MUST BECOME TRUE. AND SO LET FREEDOM RING FROM THE PRODIGIOUS HILLTOPS OF NEW @HAMPSHIRE. LET FREEDOM RING FROM THE MIGHTY MOUNTAINS OF NEW YORK. LET FREEDOM RING FROM THE HEIGHTENING ALLEGHENIES OF PENNSYLVANIA! LET FREEDOM RING FROM THE SNOWCAPPED ROCKIES OF COLORADO! LET FREEDOM RING FROM THE CURVACEOUS SLOPES OF CALIFORNIA! BUT NOT ONLY THAT; LET FREEDOM RING FROM STONE MOUNTAIN OF GEORGIA! LET FREEDOM RING FROM LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN OF TENNESSEE! LET FREEDOM RING FROM EVERY HILL AND MOLEHILL OF MISSISSIPPI. FROM EVERY MOUNTAINSIDE, LET FREEDOM RING. AND WHEN THIS HAPPENS, WHEN WE LET FREEDOM RING FROM EVERY VILLAGE, EVERY HAMLET, EVERY STATE AND EVERY CITY, WE WILL BE ABLE TO SPEAK OF THAT DAY WHEN ALL OF GOD'S CHILDREN, BLACK MEN AND WHITE MEN, JEWS AND GENTILES, PROTESTANTS AND CATHOLICS, WILL BE ABLE TO JOIN HANDS AND SING IN THE WORDS OF THE OLD NEGRO SPIRITUAL, FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST, THANK GOD ALL MIGHTY, WE ARE FREE AT LAST SCHAM

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>> THE JAMES C. WRIGHT MIDDLE SCHOOL DREAM TEAM. YES, YES. DID YOU CALL ME? I'M SORRY. >> WE'D LIKE TO MEET THE GOVERNOR.

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>> THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU.

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>> WELL, WE CAN SAY WE KNEW THEM WHEN. GIVE THEM ANOTHER HAND. WRIGHT MIDDLE SCHOOL SCHOLARS DREAM TEAM. HERE TO PRESENT THE OFFICIAL STATE PROCLAMATION HONORING DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., AGAIN, WISCONSIN GOVERNOR TONY EVERS. >> ONE OF THOSE GREAT KIDS OR MAYBE ALL THREE ARE GOING TO BE GOVERNOR SOMEDAY. LET'S MAKE THAT HAPPEN!

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>> I HAVE THE DISTINCT HONOR OF PRESENTING TO THE SWIS STATE OF WISCONSIN THE PROCLAMATION. I'D LIKE TO SHARE A PORTION OF THAT WITH YOU AT THIS TIME. WHEREAS WISCONSIN HOSTS THE OLDEST OFFICIAL STATE CEREMONY CELEBRATING THE LIFE AND WORK OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING AND THE THEME OF THIS YEAR'S CELEBRATION IS "TRUTH IS MARCHING" NOW THEREFORE I, TONY EVERS, GOVERNOR OF THE GREAT STATE OF WISCONSIN TO HEAR BUY PROCLAIM MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 2019 AS THE REVEREND DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. DAY THROUGHOUT THE STATE OF WISCONSIN AND I COMMEND THIS OBSERVANCE TO ALL OF OUR CITIZENS. THANK YOU.

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>> THANK YOU, GOVERNOR EVERS. AND NOW, AS HAS BEEN FOR 38 YEARS, WE'VE ALWAYS DISTRIBUTED THIS THROUGH THE AUDIENCE, AND TODAY IS NO EXCEPTION. AND EVERY TIME IT HAS ALWAYS COME BACK. SO IS THERE SOME SOUL WHO WOULD LIKE TO COME AND RETRIEVE? OKAY. COME ON, CUVMENT ON, COME ON. TAKE YOUR TIME. THIS IS LIVE TELEVISION. YOU DON'T HAVE TO RUSH ANYTHING. HI. HOW ARE YOU? YOU'VE DONE THIS BEFORE, I THINK. HERE IS THE PROCLAMATION OF WISCONSIN GOVERNOR TONY EVERS HONORING DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING.

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>> WELL, FRIENDS, AS WE CLOSE TODAY'S PROGRAM, I'D LIKE TO THANK OUR SPONSORS, PARTICIPANTS, PRODUCTION STAFF, VOLUNTEERS, ORGANIZERS, DAIS GUESTS, OUR GUEST SPEAKER RITA COBURN.

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>> I SUBMIT THAT DR. KING JUST MIGHT SAY TODAY THAT ENGAGING TRUTH TAKES COURAGE, SO WE SHOULDN'T BE AFRAID. RATHER THAN REACT TO THE STALE, MYTHICAL IDEA THAT WE ARE TO FEAR THOSE WHO ARE DIFFERENT, RESPOND AND SHARE WITH THEM THAT UNDERSTANDING THOSE WHO ARE DIFFERENT MAKES OUR NATION A BETTER NATION. REMIND THEM, AS RITA COBURN SAID, TRUTH IS MARCHING. ASK THEM TO JOIN YOU, TO WALK WITH YOU TOGETHER. THEN WE SHOULD, WE WILL OVERCOME. IN THAT LIGHT, LET US STAND TOGETHER SHOULDER TO SHOULDER BEFORE WE DEPART THIS PLACE, SINGING THAT CELEBRATED SONGING, "WE SHALL OVERCOME." WE SHALL OVERCOME WE SHALL OVERCOME WE SHALL OVERCOME SOMEDAY OH, DEEP IN MY HEART, I DO BELIEVE THAT WE SHALL OVERCOME SOMEDAY >> COME ON, EVERYBODY, LET'S SING IT ONCE AGAIN. WE SHALL OVERCOME WE SHALL OVERCOME WE SHALL OVERCOME SOMEDAY OH, DEEP IN MY HEART, I DO BELIEVE THAT WE SHALL OVERCOME SOMEDAY

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>> DEAR FRIENDS, THAT CONCLUDES WISCONSIN'S 39TH ANNUAL TRIBUTE AND CEREMONY HONORING THE REVEREND MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. ON BEHALF OF THE OFFICE OF GOVERNOR TONY EVERS, I'M JONATHAN OVERBY. MAY YOUR WEEK BE FILLED WITH PEACE AND HARMONY. TAKE CARE.

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BOUT MY JESUS AND HIS LOVE BOUT MY JESUS AND HIS LOVE JESUS JESUS JESUS JESUS JESUS JESUS I ASKED MY MOTHER, HOW CAN I KNOW THIS MAN DON'T YOU KNOW, DON'T YOU SEE, YOU GOT TO BE BORN AGAIN GOT TO BE BORN AGAIN GOT TO BE BORN AGAIN WELL, YOU MUST HAVE, YOU MUST HAVE THE HOLY GHOST THE HOLY GHOST THE HOLY GHOST YOU KNOW THAT I'M FREE FREE FROM SIN I BEEN BORN AGAIN LONG AGO I DIDN'T KNOW NOTHING BOUT MY JESUS AND HIS LOVE JESUS JESUS JESUS JESUS I ASKED MY MOTHER, HOW CAN I KNOW THIS MAN DON'T YOU KNOW, DON'T YOU SEE, YOU GOT TO BE BORN AGAIN GOT TO BE BORN AGAIN GOT TO BE BORN AGAIN WELL, YOU MUST HAVE, YOU MUST HAVE YOU MUST HAVE, YOU MUST HAVE YOU MUST HAVE, YOU MUST HAVE YOU MUST HAVE, YOU MUST HAVE YOU MUST HAVE, YOU MUST HAVE YOU MUST HAVE, YOU MUST HAVE YOU MUST HAVE, YOU MUST HAVE YOU MUST HAVE, YOU MUST HAVE THE HOLY GHOST THE HOLY GHOST THE HOLY GHOST THE HOLY GHOST THE HOLY GHOST THE HOLY GHOST THE HOLY GHOST THE HOLY GHOST THE HOLY GHOST THE HOLY GHOST THE HOLY GHOST THE HOLY GHOST THE HOLY GHOST THE HOLY GHOST THE HOLY GHOST THE HOLY GHOST THE HOLY GHOST THE HOLY GHOST THE HOLY GHOST THE HOLY GHOST HOLY, HOLY, HOLY HOLY, HOLY, HOLY HOLY, HOLY, HOLY HOLY, HOLY, HOLY

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LET'S TALK ABOUT THE HOLY HOLY, HOLY, HOLY, HOLY FIRE, FIRE, FIRE, FIRE FIRE, FIRE, FIRE, FIRE

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