MLK Day Journey Award award winner to speak at YWCA

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YWCA is set to host a special celebration in honor of Martin Luther King.

The celebration features a presentation by Janet Smith Dickerson, who earned Princeton University’s MLK Day Journey Award in 2010.

Dickerson plans to discuss her “commitment to serving as a mentor to and advocate for students, particularly those from underrepresented backgrounds” and how her life’s work has honored Dr. King’s legacy.

The event is scheduled for 12 to 2 p.m. Jan. 17 at YWCA Princeton’s Bramwell Living Room, 59 Paul Robeson Place.

Additionally, YWCA is set to host a screening of Nelson Mandela: Life & Times 7 p.m. Feb. 7. In the film, Mandela talks of his love of children, how apartheid affected him, facing the death sentence, how he survived prison, won over his enemies and overcame prejudice.

More information is online at ywcaprinceton.org.

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