Bernice King to Present MLK Memorial Lecture

Bernice King to Present MLK Memorial Lecture

RICE NEWS STAFF
Dec. 10, 1998

“An Evening with the Rev. Bernice King,” set for Jan. 19, is a fitting tribute for the Martin Luther King Memorial Lecture, the fourth in this year’s President’s Lecture Series.

The youngest child of Coretta Scott King and the late Martin Luther King Jr., King first exercised her oratorical gift and heard her calling to the cloth at age 17. She addressed the United Nations on apartheid in 1980 and became an ordained minister 10 years later.

She now serves as assistant pastor at Greater Rising Star Baptist Church in Atlanta, Ga., where she oversees youth and women’s ministries. Though she was only 5 years old when Martin Luther King Jr. died, Bernice is often compared to her father.

She earned a bachelor of arts degree from Spelman College and a master of divinity and doctorate of law from Emory University. King also received an honorary doctor of divinity from Wesley College.

The lecture will begin at 8 p.m. in Rice Memorial Center’s Grand Hall. Tickets will not be needed for admission. Seating will begin at 7 p.m.; however, some seats are reserved for Rice students who arrive by 7:45 p.m. To ensure reserved seats, students may obtain tickets in the Student Organizations Office, but these are not necessary for attendance. After 7:45 p.m., any unoccupied seats remaining in the student section will be released.

Steven Pinker will present the fifth lecture of the series, “How the Mind Works,” on Feb. 16. Pinker, one of the world’s leading cognitive scientists, will ask audacious questions about the functions of the human mind and boldly set out to answer them.