Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration
Generation to Generation: 35 Years of Honoring Dr. King at Columbus State
Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025 10 a.m. to noon
Center for Workforce Development - 4th floor ballroom
315 Cleveland Avenue
Please join Columbus State students, faculty, and staff, as we come together to honor the enduring legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. King’s called for each generation to be willing to enlighten, encourage, and empower the next generation and as Columbus State continues to build a better, more inclusive, community, we are proud to champion the powerful messages of Dr. King.
“In some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty. ”
Reuel Barksdale
Professor, Business and Paralegal Program
Columbus State Community College
After opening last year’s keynote event delivering a powerful poem, Reuel Barksdale was a natural choice for this year’s speaker at our annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. program. Barksdale is an author and award-winning tenured professor in the Business Programs Department at Columbus State Community College.
His novel, “Lessons Beneath the Mask: From Pain to Promise” explores how we can break free from adversity and pursue our goals. Professor Barksdale has received the Distinguished Teacher Award at Columbus State and has been listed as “A Teacher of Excellence” by Ohio Magazine.
Nominations for Barb Smith-Allen and the Darius Torrence Visionary Columbus State Dreamer Awards
Every year in celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. the college honors one staff
member and one student for their leadership and commitment to creating a diverse campus
culture. Originally called The Visionary Dreamer Award, the honor was renamed in recent
years to reflect two members of our community who exemplified the important work of
Dr. King, Barb Smith-Allen and Darius Torrence.
Nominees must make significant and lasting contributions to continue to create an environment where diversity is honored and respected on campus and within the broader community. Nominations should describe how the individual or group accomplished one or more of the following:
- Initiate or engage in activities that positively impact the educational, social, economic, or political life of the community.
- Contribute to the achievement of self-determination by individuals or groups.
- Display creativity, determination, and perseverance in achieving human and civil rights goals.
- Establish an ongoing program or institution for the improvement of human relations and civil rights.
- Exemplify the nonviolent philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr., and other nonviolent activists in the quest for improved human relations and civil rights.
Electronic nominations can be submitted via email before Jan. 8, 2025. Questions related to this award can be sent to the co-chair for the Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration, Dana Cummings at dcummings20@cscc.edu.
Sign Up To Serve
“Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve.”
To celebrate and honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy of service, the Columbus State Community College MLK Day Planning Committee is excited to host the annual MLK Day of Service on Friday, Jan. 24! Sign up now and you will be notified in January of specific service site opportunities.
Join the Day of Service community page via Cougar Connect.
Sign Up To Serve
There will be a mix of both on-campus and off-campus service opportunities to accommodate schedules and availability on this regularly scheduled college workday.
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