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Saturday, January 16, 2027 · Doors 9:00 AM
Bonne Sante Wellness Center, BRCC Mid City Campus

The 9th Annual United Excel Social Justice Ministry MLK Breakfast, hosted this year by Baton Rouge Community College

A Legacy of Opportunity

2027 MLK Scholarship Breakfast & Community Celebration

Today’s children, students, scholars and young entrepreneurs walk through doors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. helped open. His legacy is education and opportunity, and this morning we pass it to four more students.

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Photograph: Dr. King at the March on Washington, 1963 Rowland Scherman, U.S. Information Agency. National Archives.

Honoring a legacy. Inspiring a generation. Investing in our future.

Dr. King entered Morehouse College at 15, and three years later wrote in the student paper that education has to build character as well as intelligence. Here in Baton Rouge, a portion of what this room raises becomes four awards, handed to students on stage at 10:20 AM.

1953 Rev. T. J. Jemison led the Baton Rouge bus boycott, the first mass bus boycott of the civil rights era, two years before Montgomery. The story, 1944 to 2027.

Civil rights leaders in suits march through a dense crowd holding signs that demand jobs, voting rights and effective civil rights laws, with Dr. King among them and press photographers on a truck at left.

Washington, D.C.,

Dr. King marches among civil rights leaders and crowds carrying signs at the March on Washington.

Warren K. Leffler, photographer. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, U.S. News & World Report Magazine Collection, LC-DIG-ppmsca-04297. More photographs on The legacy page.

The morning at a glance

  1. Doors open
  2. “Lift Every Voice and Sing”Performed by ABLAZE
  3. Community breakfast
  4. Scholarship presentationsAwarded on stage
  5. Panel discussion
  6. Keynote addressDr. Eddie Glaude Jr.
  7. VIP ReceptionBy invitation

Every cue, from the invocation at 9:30 to the benediction at 12:30, is on the program page.

Photo: Sameer A. Khan

Keynote address · 11:40 AM

Dr. Eddie Glaude Jr.

Princeton University professor, New York Times bestselling author, MSNBC contributor, and, like Dr. King, a graduate of Morehouse College. His books, and where he fits in the morning.

Apply for a 2027 MLK Scholarship

High school seniors and college students pursuing higher education at Baton Rouge Community College or another college or university can apply for two $1,000 scholarships and two $500 book scholarships by . See eligibility and apply.

Applications for the 2027 scholarships closed on . Questions go to unitedexcel@ucfministries.org. About the scholarships.

Saturday, January 16, 2027

The doors open at 9:00 AM.

Bonne Sante Wellness Center, on BRCC’s Mid City Campus. Come early, and be in the room when the scholarships are awarded at 10:20.

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$500
a table of eight, for your family, ministry, or team
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Sponsorships run from $1,500 to $25,000, led by the Legacy of Leadership presenting sponsorship, and each includes reserved seating and VIP Reception invitations.

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