Martin Luther King Jr. Event Was Held at NHS Sunday January 15 2023, by The Nordonia Hills Community for the MLK Day Program “Better Together”
Sponsored by: The Nordonia Hills Ministerium Guest Speaker: Chip Freed, Chief Missional Strategist &Teaching Pastor from Garfield Memorial Church and performances by Nordonia Hills Students.
As we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr Day we are reminded of what his public “I Have a Dream” speech was about almost sixty years ago: ending racism and injustice.
Join the Nordonia Hills Library for their FREE Community Book Read and Discussion with books by Tyler Merritt on February 25, 2023. Go to www.akronlibrary.org for more information.
ABOUT TYLER MERRITT:
Tyler Merritt travels all around the United States as a guest speaker for the free “We Need to Talk” discussions on racism. The series was created by the UNLV Libraries and the Greenspun College of Urban Affairs. Merritt will be at the Nordonia Hills Library for his book discussions.
Tyler@thetylermerrittproject.com TylerMerrittbook.com, and thetylermerrittproject.com
Merritt is a Las Vegas native, author, speaker, musician, actor, and creator of The Tyler Merritt Project. He is also the author of “I Take My Coffee Black: Reflections on Tupac, Musical Theater, Faith and Being Black in America” and the new children’s book, “A Door Made For Me.” Merritt was raised in Las Vegas and is a graduate from Las Vegas Academy. His video essay, “Before You Call the Cops,” was released in 2018 and has had more than 100 million views, and was named the top 20 videos by NowThisPolitics. The same video went viral again in 2020 after the murder of George Floyd. TV host Jimmy Kimmel aired the video on his show May 20, 2020.
In 2020, in an effort to increase racial justice after the George Floyd murder by Minnesota police, the series “We Need to Talk”, was released by UNLV University Libraries and the Greenspun College of Urban Affairs. (information gleaned from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas website)
