President of the Harriet Tubman Cultural Center, Stan Maclin, along with motivational speaker Marvin Roane, has organized the “Power of Empowerment Conference,” to be held June 1 to 2 at the Lucy F. Simms Center. (Photo by Michelle Gabro)
Honoring Stan Maclin
A First Decade after 50 Celebration.
Harriet
Tubman
Cultural
Center, 2 South Main Suite 604
6:00-7:00,
Friday
December 27,
2013.
Support
the renaming
at: MLKJrWay.org
Stan Maclin stands at the intersection of Vine and Washington streets. It looks like Maclin’s effort to rename Vine Street in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. may be nearing fruition. “I think it’s doable,” Mayor Ted Byrd says. (Photo by Nikki Fox / DN-R)
Stan Maclin, president of the Harriet Tubman Cultural Center, speaks during the Harriet Tubman Day Celebration at the Lucy F. Simms Center auditorium on Sunday.
LEFT TO RIGHT: Stan Maclin, president of the Harriet Tubman Cultural Center, chats with Dr. Terry Overby, a Harrisonburg physician, and Emily Riehl, Shenandoah Valley organizer at Virginia Organizing, after they were presented with Harriet Tubman Commemorative Leadership Awards on Sunday at the Lucy F. Simms Center for Continuing Education in Harrisonburg. (Photos by Michael Reilly / DN-R)
Stan Maclin, founder of the Harriet Tubman Cultural Center in Harrisonburg, has led the effort to rename a city street after Martin Luther King Jr. (Photo by Michael Reilly / DN-R)
Supporters of the renaming of Cantrell to honor Martin Luther King Jr. prepare to rally and march to City Council Tuesday before the vote on the matter. Council voted 4-1 to change one of the city’s most prominent thoroughfares to Martin Luther King Jr. Way, effective Jan. 1.
Stan Maclin, curator of the Harriet Tubman Cultural Center, was 10 years old when JFK was assassinated. “Kennedy, he was a sign of release,” Maclin says. (Photo by Jason Lenhart)