Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Birthday Celebration Event

Hayward will pay tribute to the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with a program of music and song, poetry, community-award recognitions, a keynote address by Chief of Police Toney Chaplin and other activities starting at 4:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 16, at Chabot College Performing Arts Complex.
The annual Hayward celebration of the great social justice and civil rights leader that takes place on the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday is returning to its live format after a two-year hiatus due to the COVID19 pandemic.
The program is sponsored by the Hayward South Alameda County NAACP, Chabot College, Hayward Unified School District and the City of Hayward, and will feature performances by the Mt. Eden High School Choir, Hayward High School Jazz Band and Brett Harte Middle School Slam Poets.
Keynote speaker Chaplin is the first African-American leader of the Hayward Police Department. Born one year and one week to the day after the assassination of Dr. King on April 4, 1968, Chief Chaplin grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, location of the Black Wall Street massacre, where a white mob attacked the thriving Greenwood business district on May 31, 1921, resulting in the death of more than 300 people. He is a U.S. Army veteran who went on to a 30-year career of service to the San Francisco Police Department where he held every rank from patrol officer to Interim Chief of Police before being named Hayward’s 15th Chief of Police in July 2019.
Carl Baker-Madsen, City of Hayward, Ret.
Michael Bazeley, Hayward Unified School District
Freddy M. Davis, President, Hayward South Alameda County NAACP
Zachary Ebadi, City of Hayward
Bernadette Fife, Chabot College
Chuck Finnie, City of Hayward
Barbara Halliday, Mayor, City of Hayward
Michael Sweeney, Former Mayor, City of Hayward
Virginia Williamson, Alpha Omega Delta Kappa Gamma
Connie Willis, Community Member
Ralph Morales, 2020
Chuck Horner, 2019
Kay Thomas, 2019
Blytha Bowers, 2018
Zachary Ebadi, 2017
Kari McAllister, 2016
Sheryl Boykins, 2015
Carl & Marilyn Baker-Madsen, 2014
Darryl McAllister, 2013
Freedom Reign, 2012
Former Mayor Michael Sweeney, 2011
Charles Plummer, 2010
Gail Steele, 2010
Reverend John Thomas, 2009
Odessa Staggers, 2008
Valerie Snart, 2007
Bishop J. W. Macklin, 2006
Francisco Zermeño, 2005
AmeriCorps, Chabot College, 2004
Kathi Booth, 2003
Nancy Schluntz, 2003
Sandra Iglehart, 2002
Marilyn Baker-Madsen, 2001
Venius Winn, 2000
Gloria Grant-Wilson, 1999
James Knuppe, 1998
Carol Henrie, 1997
Clarence Gilmore, 1997
Carolyn Greene, 1996
Marlin Foxworth, 1996
Alwine Fenton, 1995
Freddye M. Davis, 1994
Michael Bell, 1993