Y. plans civil rights celebration

PROVO — Brigham Young University will host the annual Walk of Life Memorial Service celebrating the dream of Martin Luther King Jr. and the works of the Civil Rights Movement on Monday, Jan. 16, beginning at 5:30 p.m. at the Carillon Bell Tower.

Students from the BYU Black Student Union will lead a candlelight processional from the tower to the Wilkinson Student Center Main Ballroom. The memorial program will feature speakers Marguerite Driessen, professor of law at BYU's J. Reuben Clark Law School, and Michael Styles, Martin Luther King commissioner and director of the Utah Office of Black Affairs.

The Black Student Union Choir will perform musical selections, along with a recitation of King's "I Have a Dream" speech. The event focuses on the theme for Black History Month 2006, "A Light in the Darkness."

The event is free and open to the public.