MLK Celebration: Legacy of Freedom Award

Edwin Hernandez, keynote address

One individual and two organizations are recipients of the 2010 Legacy of Freedom Awards. This year’s convocation and presentation of the awards will be on Sunday, Jan. 17, in the Seminary Chapel, at 7 p.m. The recipients are local educator Charlotte Groff, The Mildred C. Wells Academy of Benton Harbor and Gateway of Berrien Springs. Edwin Hernandez, research fellow for the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Research in the Center for the Study of Latino Religion and research director for the DeVos Family Foundation of Grand Rapids, is the keynote speaker. His presentation is titled, “Keepers of the Dream: The Role of a Christian University in Race Relations.”