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Lake Forest, Ill – Lake Forest College invites the public to attend an evening of events in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. on Monday, January 21, beginning at 4:30 p.m. The celebration is open to the public and is free of charge. Barack Obama, D-Chicago, senator for the 13th State Senate District, will begin the evening with a lecture at 4:30 p.m. Immediately following Obama’s talk, Voices of the World, the Lake Forest College gospel choir will perform. Both events will be held in the Lily Reid Holt Memorial Chapel located on the College’s Middle Campus at the intersection of College and Sheridan roads in Lake Forest. For more information, please call the Office of Intercultural Relations at (847) 735-5105. Barack Obama received his bachelor of arts degree in political science from Columbia University in 1983, and his JD, magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1991. Prior to attending Harvard, Obama directed community organizing projects in low income communities in New York and Chicago. In 1992, Obama served as Illinois Executive Director of Project Vote!, an effort that added over 100,000 newly registered voters. Senator Obama is the Democratic Spokesperson for the Public Health and Welfare Committee, and he also serves on the Judiciary and Revenue Committees. Obama works as a civil rights attorney in Chicago, specializing in employment discrimination, fair housing and voting rights litigation. He also lectures at the University of Chicago Law School, where he teaches civil rights law and related subjects. His memoir Dreams From My Father was published by Time Books in 1995. A canned food drive will be held in conjunction with the celebration, sponsored by the College’s mentoring program, MOOS (Measure of our Success). Lake Forest College is a private liberal arts institution located 30 miles north of downtown Chicago. The College has 1,240 students representing 44 states and 41 other countries.
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