2025
Celebrating 20 Years!
2025 marks twenty years that the Huron Valley MLK Day committee has provided services to the community. The annual March on Main, in Milford, food projects to assist area families in need, organizing educational projects that introduce diversity to our community and a multimedia contest that brings excitement for all ages while celebrating the life teachings of Dr. King.
This year will be filled with the usual as well as new endeavors that, once again, offers education and excitement. The committee's largest endeavors is a Children's Book Mission. We are asking the entire community to get involved during the 2024-2025 school year by purchasing 'a book at a time' for Michigan's most financially struggling schools. Then, of course, our annual multimedia contest begs for attention from our local community's talented children and adults. The contest will last from October, 2024, to mid January, 2025, culminating in various winners announced at the March on Main January 19, 2025.
To set the mood for celebrating MLK Day 2025, the committee will host a film appreciation night at the Milford Theater in January. This evening out will create an opportunity for a social gathering to meet our neighbors and make new friends. At last we will all meet on Sunday, January 19, 2025, in Milford to march through downtown Milford. The SHAC will be the location for the concluding ceremony, where there will be hot beverages and refreshments, a presentation of awards for the multimedia contest winners, and enjoyable music that will help us celebrate the holiday.
The HV MLK Day Committee will then provide, for the first time, a poster exhibit from the Smithsonian Institution. This month-long free exhibit is designed for all ages, encouraging families to come together to view and discuss what we must never forget, African American History. The exhibit is called "A Place for All People," an appropriate name for our 2025 anniversary celebratory year as we continue to promote peace and unity, for citizens of all ages and backgrounds on behalf of Dr. King’s vision of the Beloved Community.
