A message of inclusion
Transcendent songs of struggle and freedom filled the vast sanctuary at Harvard’s Memorial Church Monday night as part of a celebration of the life and message of Martin Luther King Jr. The event marked the start of the University’s third annual Interfaith Awareness Week. The event brought a screening of the documentary film “Soundtrack for a Revolution” to a generation of students who were born long after King’s assassination in 1968. The film contains a condensed history of the Civil Rights Movement with modern musical interludes by John Legend, Wyclef Jean, The Roots, and others. “With the added musical dimension, it was an opportunity to teach the younger community about the Civil Rights Movement, and what whites, blacks, and Latinos accomplished together,” said S. Allen Counter, director of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, one of the event planners. This was the first year that commemorations of King’s life have coincided with...