The DePaul University Cultural Center will hold its annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Prayer Breakfast on Jan. 15 at the Lincoln Park Student Center, 2250 N. Sheffield Ave., Room 120, from 7:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. The Rev Willie T. Barrow, co-chairperson of the Rainbow-PUSH Coalition, will deliver the keynote speech.

Barrow has been an activist for social change since the 1940s when she led a demonstration to gain bus service denied black students in her rural hometown of Burton, Texas. She is a graduate of Warner-Pacific Seminary in Portland, Ore. and currently serves as associate minister of the Vernon Park Church of God.

Nicknamed “The Little Warrior” because of her fiery dedication to freedom fighting, Barrow worked as a field organizer for the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. during major civil rights marches and demonstrations from 1953 through the legendary March on Selma, Ala. in 1965. She was among the founding members, along with the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, of Operation Breadbasket, the community service organization that spawned the Rainbow-PUSH Coalition.

Katherine Davis, a versatile singer and teacher in “The Blues in the Schools” educational program in Chicago will provide a musical tribute to King.

DePaul’s College of Law will hold its annual King Day luncheon on the Loop Campus at the DePaul Center, 1 E. Jackson Blvd., Room 8005, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The program opens with a keynote speech by Robert Westley, a professor of law at Tulane University. He will address the topic of “Unnatural Disaster: What Would Dr. King Do about Katrina?”

Davis will again perform her musical tribute to King.

The luncheon will begin at 12:15 p.m. and a one-hour screening of Spike Lee’s documentary “When the Levees Broke” will follow at 12:45 p.m. A discussion of the keynote address and documentary will follow and will be led by professors Wendy Brown Scott, of North Carolina Central University Law School; Clement Price, of Rutgers-Newark University Law School; and David Dante Troutt, of Rutgers-Newark Law School.

All of DePaul’s King Day events are free and open to the public.

Reservations to attend the breakfast should be made by Jan. 10 by phoning 773/325-7759. RSVPs for the luncheon are also requested by Jan. 10 and can be made by emailing lawevents@depaul.edu or by phoning 312/362-5292. Please indicate if a vegetarian meal is preferred.