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Published: Dec 21, 2007 12:00 AM
Modified: Dec 21, 2007 03:05 AM

Actress to speak at UNC for King Day

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CHAPEL HILL - Actress and activist Ruby Dee will deliver the keynote address at this year's 23rd annual University-Community Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration at UNC. Her address will be in Memorial Hall on East Cameron Avenue at 7 p.m. Jan. 22.

Dee and her husband-actor, Ossie Davis, have been inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame and the NAACP Hall of Fame and honored with the National Medal of the Arts, among many other accolades.

Tickets are free. Seating is reserved, and tickets are limited to two per person, available starting Jan. 16. They must be picked up at the Memorial Hall Box Office. For ticket information, call (919) 843-3333. For information about the other activities during the week, visit www.unc.edu/diversity/mlk.

The Rev. Chancy R. Edwards, pastor emeritus of First Baptist Church in Fayetteville and a senior adviser to Gov. Michael Easley, will be the keynote speaker at the celebration's Memorial Banquet, which will be at the Friday Center for Continuing Education at 6 p.m. Jan. 20. To purchase banquet tickets, call (919) 962-6962.

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