KING PORTRAYER TO RETURN TO MC THURSDAY
Release Date: October 29, 2001
Jim Lucas, who has gained national acclaim for his dramatic
recitations and interpretive readings depicting the life and times of Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr., will return to the Monmouth College campus Thursday, November 1st, for a performance at 7
p.m. in The Underground in the Grier Hall.
The event, which is sponsored by the office of intercultural
life, is free and open to the public. It was originally scheduled for Sept. 13 but was
postponed following the events of Sept. 11.
Lucas, who performed at Monmouth in 1999, asks the provocative
question “What would Martin do if he was alive today?” If King looked at issues such as
Affirmative Action and racial profiling from a civil rights point of view, what would he think
and say and do? Perhaps King’s most memorable words were his “I Have a Dream” speech. Has that
dream been realized?
Lucas’ dramatic performance before the Diplomatic Corps and an
international television audience prompted former President Clinton to call him, “The most
authentic and exhilarating King that I have ever seen.” His resemblance to and interpretation
of Dr. King has been called “remarkable” and “uncanny.”
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