MLK@TUS

An annual event sponsored by The Unitarian Society, MLK@TUS promotes anti-racist education and action within the wider community. This event is scheduled in remembrance of Dr. Martin Luther King’s assassination in April 1968.

MLK@TUS 2024

1964/2024: Reflections on the Civil Rights Act of 1964
with Musical Performances, Spoken Word, and a Keynote Address

April 7, 2024


MLK@TUS 2023
“You Don’t Know Me Until You Know Me”
with Dr. Mykee Fowlin

April 23, 2023

On April 23, 2023, The Unitarian Society hosted a presentation challenging us to unveil our authentic selves. An experiential, one-person theatrical event, “MLK@TUS: You Don’t Know Me Until You Know Me,” featured a moving performance by Dr. Mykee Fowlin, whose mission is to create an atmosphere of worldwide inclusion, beyond tolerance, toward all people.

Dr. Fowlin recognizes that hiding our pain can be to our detriment, and that exposing it can instead be a gift that effects change in our society. Using his performance art, humor, poetry, storytelling, psychology, monologues, and his personal journey, Dr. Fowlin quells the fear of being rejected or judged and encourages us to celebrate our differences. “We are capable of transforming the world, for the good, but this work starts from within; it is the process of turning our hurt into self-reflection, healing, and then action,” he says. In addition to his theatrical talents, Dr. Fowlin has an undergraduate degree in psychology from Evangel University in Springfield, Missouri, and obtained a doctoral degree in clinical psychology from the Graduate School of Applied & Professional Psychology (GSAPP) at Rutgers University.


Below are images from the 2020 event at which the Meta Theatre Company performed an interactive theatrical piece on the myth of a biological basis for race.  Afterwards, we all created nearly 100 bag lunches in partnership with Elijah’s Promise for their guests who are unhoused or experience food insecurity.