Snapshot: Carmel holds inaugural MLK event

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KJI Institute student Brian Wilson, center, dances with other students. He also played piano, sang and acted during the program.

Dee Thornton, head of the Mayor’s Advisory Commission on Human Relations, emcees the event.

KJI Institute students opened the show by singing James Weldon Johnson’s “Lift Every Voice.”

Professor Angela Jackson-Brown, an award-winning author, poet and playwright, welcomes guests.

The City of Carmel held an inaugural event honoring Martin Luther King Jr. Jan. 21 at the Tarkington Theater. (Photos by Ben Stout)