t. eric Lincoln
Was Honored At
Three-Day Meet
DURHAM—Duke University pro
fessor C. Eric Lincoln and his Mend
and fellow civil rights activist the
late Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
were honored earlier this month in
Boston with a three-day event tlut In
cluded the reading and signing of Lin
coln’s poetry and hymns by King’s
family and Mends.
Lincoln, professor of religion and
culture at Duke and co-author of the
highly acclaimed new “Thh Black
Church In the AMcan American Ex
perience," based the program, "This
Road Since Freedom," on his collec
tion of poems bearing the same
name. In his poems, Lincoln, who has
also written hymns, scholarly bodks
and an award-winning novel, relates
black history through the eyes of a
variety of characters.
During the Jan. 11-13 tribute, Lin
coln was awarded an honorary
degree of humane letters In a Boston
University ceremony attended by the
president, 60 university professors,
ana several nunarea menaa ana
former atudents from aeroaa the
country. Hia work waa alto featured
in a Friday colloquium at the univer
sity's school of theology.
The highlight of the weekend waa
the Sunday sold-out program at
Boston Symphony Hall, "This Road
to Freedom: The Making of a
Dream.”
Although the program was original
ly to have featured Lincoln’* oratorio,
"This Road Since Freedom,” the
musical score was not ready soon
enough for the Jan. 13 performance.
Instead, Lincoln’s good friends ac
tors Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis and
others read from Lincoln’s poetry,
King’s children, Yolanda King and
Martin Luther King, III, presented a
reading of Lincoln’s "Come Back,
Martin Luther King.”
Coordinated by former Duke divini
ty faculty member Jon Michael
Spencer, the program also included
the singing of Lincoln’s hymns,
“Prayers of Love,” “How Like a Gen
tle Spirit,” from the United Methodist
Hymnal; and “Hall, Bethel,” the
hymn Lincoln wrote for the centen
nial of the African Methodist
Episcopal Church. Also featured was
‘‘Kerry’s Song,” which Lincoln wrote
last year for the wedding of Robert
Kennedy’s daughter and Mario
Cuomo’s son.
Performers for the program, which
received strong reviews in Boston
area newspapers, included the All
Saints Ashmont BoyChoir, Boston
University alumna and award
winning mezzo soprano Pamela
Dillard, David Arnold, Yun Jin Kim,
Dennis Rodriguez, Yolanda Maria
Vasquez, and Steven Salters.
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