The Cornell University campus community will join in "A Celebration of Martin Luther King Jr." on Thursday, Feb. 4, at 4 p.m. in Sage Chapel.

The Rev. Walter Fluker, director of the Leadership Center at Morehouse College in Atlanta, will speak about the relevance of King's legacy for the Cornell community.

The choir from the Cornell Korean Church also will participate in the celebration, after which refreshments will be served. The Campus Store will have copies of Fluker's books available for signing.

Robert L. Johnson, director of Cornell United Religious Work, will officiate at the celebration.

"We invite the entire campus community to join us in celebrating Dr. King's life and in reinforcing his ideals on campus," said Winnie Taylor, law professor and associate provost, who helped organize the event.

Fluker has held faculty positions at Harvard and Vanderbilt universities and Colgate-Rochester Divinity School. He is the recipient of many awards and honors, including an Andrew W. Mellon Faculty Fellowship and a fellowship at the W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research, both at Harvard. He is engaged in several projects related to the development of African-American church leadership and is president and CEO of VisionQuest Association Inc., a nonprofit charitable trust, and YouthQuest, a program initiative that promotes the development of character, civility and community among youth.

He also is author of They Looked for a City: A Comparative Analysis of the Ideal Community in the Thought of Howard Thurman and Martin Luther King, Jr. (University Press of America, 1989) and editor of two books. He was a consultant for the current movie, "The Prince of Egypt," and is editor of the Howard Thurman Papers Project.