Category: Realizing the Dream


Quiñones and Rubio Encourage Students to Serve by Offering Their Unique Identities and Talents

ABC News correspondent John Quiñones and Realizing the Dream Legacy Award winner Isabel Rubio engaged with University of Alabama students and faculty in a spirited question and answer session prior to the awards ceremony on Friday, January 13 at the Bryant Conference Center. Ninety minutes before the banquet where he delivered the keynote address and…


Realizing the Dream Weekend Celebrated at The University of Alabama

Related Stories:2017 Legacy Banquet2017 Dream ConcertJohn Quiñones TranscriptQuinones/Rubio Student Session Tuscaloosa, Ala. — The annual Realizing the Dream weekend began with a buzz of excitement at the Bryant Conference Center on The University of Alabama campus as students, faculty, staff, community members and award recipients past and present gathered in Sellers Auditorium Jan. 13 for the…


UA Announces 2017 Realizing the Dream Schedule

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Legendary gospel artist Kirk Franklin will be the featured performer for the 2017 Realizing the Dream Concert Sunday, January 15, 2017, at 7:30 p.m. at The University of Alabama’s Moody Music Concert Hall on campus. John Quiñones, veteran ABC news figure and host of the highly rated “What Would You Do?,” a…


Legend Challenges Young People to Carry on Work of MLK, Follows by Playing Piano and Singing Audience Favorites

By Kirsten J. BarnesCCBP Graduate Assistant On Sunday, January 19, the eve of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s national holiday, more than 1,000 people, many of them University of Alabama students, filled the Frank M. Moody Music Building to hear a lecture and the music of Grammy Award winning singer/songwriter/humanitarian John Legend. “I’m especially…


Veteran Network Journalist Digs Deeply in Telling Alabama’s Civil Rights Story at the Sixth Annual Realizing the Dream Legacy Banquet

(Following is a transcript of John Cochran’s speech at the Legacy Banquet in Foster Auditorium, January 17, 2014. Cochran is a native of Montgomery and a graduate of the University of Alabama. The veteran broadcast journalist has worked for both ABC and NBC News.) I must tell you I was surprised to be asked to…


Realizing the Dream Concert 2013: The Performers

Take 6  The most awarded vocal group in history (including 10 Grammy Awards, 10 Dove Awards and a Soul Train Award) is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. Members are Claude McKnight, Mark Kibble, Joel Kibble, Dave Thomas, Alvin Chea and Khristian Dentley. Six virtuosic voices unite in crystal-clear a cappella harmony against a backdrop…