BYU Walk of Life and service projects honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. legacy

BYU students and the local community gathered to honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with service and a Walk of Life January 20 and 22 on the Brigham Young University campus.

More than 1,200 people spent the morning volunteering for more than a dozen service projects during a Community Outreach Day sponsored by Y Serve. Projects benefited local and international agencies that support children and families, including Mountainland Headstart, Project Uplift, Hearts Knit Together, Goodwill bikes, the Now I Can Foundation, Red Cross, and refugee projects in Jordan and Lebanon.

For more than 25 years, BYU has hosted a Walk of Life candlelight walk and commemoration to celebrate Dr. King's life and teachings. Sponsored by BYU’s Multicultural Student Services and the Black Student Union, the event concluded with a talk by BYU graduate Kalin Hall, a former BYU football player and co-founder of VA'A Legacy. "There's a beauty that resides in all of us," said Hall. "It doesn't matter what color we are, doesn’t matter where we come from, what country, what language we speak. The spirit resonates through language, the spirit resonates through color. The spirit resonates through the spoken word because ultimately it embraces everybody."

For a list of upcoming 2020 BYU Black History Month events, see kennedy.byu.edu/events/black-history-month/