SAN DIEGO – The San Diego LGBT Community Center has announced that the Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Choir San Diego will perform at the seventh annual Harvey Milk Diversity Breakfast Thursday, May 21, at the San Diego Bayfront Hilton.
Widely known for their exceptional concert performances, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Choir San Diego, Inc., more commonly known as the MLK Choir, is a volunteer organization of singers from San Diego County and Temecula. Their repertoire includes gospel music, Negro Spirituals, anthems, and some classical works. They have performed in several cities in California and throughout Europe educating audiences on the history and impact of spirituals and gospel music. Proceeds from their concerts and cd sales fund educational grants, awarded to qualifying high school seniors who are pursuing higher education in the visual and performing arts. For more information, visit their website at www.mlkccsd.org.
The event will also feature honorees Phill Wilson, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Black AIDS Institute, and Rev. Troy Perry, founder of Metropolitan Community Churches, both of whom will be accepting Harvey Milk Lifetime Achievement Awards.
Now in its seventh year, the Harvey Milk Diversity Breakfast began as the vision of Nicole Murray Ramirez, Robert Gleason, the San Diego LGBT Community Center, and an amazing coalition of civic and business leaders. The event is designed to bring together more than 1,000 diverse San Diegans, business, labor, Democrats, Republicans, all communities, all ages – in fact, all San Diegans who support equality and justice – to celebrate the memory of this influential civil rights activist. Information about the Harvey Milk Diversity Breakfast is available online at www.facebook.com/harvey.milk.diversity.breakfast.
