This Year's Breakfast

The General Mills Foundation and the United Negro College Fund are pleased to present the 18th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Breakfast. The Holiday Breakfast is an opportunity to celebrate the life and legacy of the man and movement that not only changed civil rights laws for all Americans but set in motion the drive for human rights reform worldwide. The theme of this year’s Holiday Breakfast is "Answering the Call…"

	Keynote Speaker Charlayne Hunter-Gault Charlayne Hunter-Gault is an award-winning journalist with more than 40 years in the industry. She is the author of In My Place, a memoir of the civil rights movement, fashioned around her experiences as the first black woman to attend the University of Georgia and her latest book, New News Out of Africa: Uncovering the African Renaissance. Read more
	Mistress of Ceremonies Angela Davis Angela Davis reports for WCCO This Morning and joined WCCO-TV in 2006. Angela has lived in the Twin Cities since 1994. Before coming to WCCO-TV, Davis co-anchored the morning and midday newscasts at KSTP-TV. She also worked as a reporter and weekend anchor at that station. Read more
	Musical Performers Gregory Washington & Voices of Praise Gregory Washington & Voices of Praise is the combined adult choir of Greater Friendship Missionary Baptist Church (formerly known as Sabathani Baptist Church). This Minneapolis Baptist Church choir has taken the gospel industry by storm, bridging the gap between traditional gospel music, funk, soul, and rhythm & praise Read more
	Special Guest Melinda Doolittle Melinda Doolittle considered herself a 'professional back-up singer'. But, to the world, she became known as one of the most powerful and charismatic performers to ever grace the stage of American Idol. And to quote Simon Cowell, one of the judges on the show: "Melinda – you're no longer a back-up singer. You are a star." Read more