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May 30, 2007

Head of URI's nonviolence center to be honored

The director of the University of Rhode Island’s Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies will be honored this evening in Hartford as part of the celebration of a traveling outdoor art exhibit whose purpose is to spread a message of diversity and acceptance around the world.

Bernard LaFayette Jr., who has been a civil-rights movement activist, minister, educator and lecturer, was a trusted friend of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and cofounder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

Tonight at 7, after a 5:30 p.m. exhibition viewing in Hartford, LaFayette will receive The Hartford Financial Services Group’s Coexistence Award.

The Hartford is hosting the first New England showing of the exhibit Coexistence, which was created in Jerusalem and has traveled around the world.

-- projo.com staff writer Kate Bramson

Posted by Kate Bramson  at 5:19 PM | Permalink

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