Bringing Martin Luther King to a New Generation
Champion 8th-grader Jared Sawyer will be reciting the famous Martin Luther King Jr. speech this year for the third time.
This year marks the ninth annual Martin Luther King Jr. celebration hosted by the city of Stone Mountain and the DeKalb NAACP, with a parade, rally and Ebenezer-like services in downtown Stone Mountain. And this will be the third year that Jared Sawyer will reenact the famous “I Have a Dream” speech at Champion Middle School during the rally, and he does it with the same fire and tone that the masterful orator King had. Sawyer, currently an 8th grade student attending Champion, was first approached to recite the speech for the 2009 Martin Luther King holiday by his principal, Angelique Smith-Hunt. The “I Have a Dream” speech at Champion had been going on since school opened in 2006, and its last candidate had just graduated from Champion …
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Darla Dixon
10:18 am on Saturday, January 15, 2011
Nice to read about something happening in Stone Mountain village, instead of having to pay admission to Stone Mountain Park! more ›