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UA Announces 2021 Virtual Realizing the Dream Events

Realizing the Dream Virtual Events logo

While the two most familiar components — the annual concert and legacy banquet — will not occur this year, other important aspects of this annual celebration will take place. Among the activities planned is the premier of a documentary that will chronicle the vision and aspirations of those who founded the event in 1990, as well…


UA Recognized as a Top Producing Institution in Student Fulbright Awards Competition

UA Recognized as a Top Producing Institution in Student Fulbright Awards Competition TUSCALOOSA – The University of Alabama has been recognized as a top producing institution for student Fulbright awards, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education. Eleven of 30 UA applicants received the award during 2015–2016, one of the highest success ratios in the…


Crossroads Community Center’s Lane McLelland honored with National Dialogue Award

  Crossroad Community Center’s Lane McLelland was honored at the Second Annual National Dialogue Awards on October 9th, 2015  at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. Presented by the Sustained Dialogue Institute, the National Dialogue Awards honors those whose lives have been powerfully marked by the principles and values of the organization. The mission of the Sustained Dialogue Institute is to help people…


Lane McLelland Named Capstone Hero for Embodying Spirit of the Capstone Creed

Lane McLelland, director of Crossroads Community Center since 2013, has been named a Capstone Hero for outstanding service to students. The award recognizes her work in strengthening Sustained Dialogue and her role in founding Blend, a student organization that promotes diversity. She was also cited for being willing to sit down with students to help…


Dr. Jonathan Holloway of Yale University Is the 2014 Realizing the Dream Distinguished Lecturer

By Kirsten Barnes Center for Community-Based Partnerships TUSCALOOSA — Stillman College will host Yale University professor of history and African American studies Dr. Jonathan Holloway as the 2014 Martin Luther King Jr. Realizing the Dream Distinguished Lecturer, a project jointly sponsored by the Tuscaloosa Chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Shelton State Community College,…


MLK Realizing the Dream 2014 Events

Events Legend Challenges Young People [ story ]John Cochran Shares His Civil Rights Education [ story ]Melanie Gotz, Horizon Award [ video ]Cleophus Thomas Jr., Call to Conscience Award [ video ]Dr. Roger Sayers, Mountaintop Award [ video ]Cochran Text [ transcript ]