The 38th Annual Community Leaders Breakfast honoring the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will be held 7:30 a.m. Friday, Jan. 15, at the Claude G. Perkins Living and Learning Center at Virginia Union University, 1500 N. Lombardy St.

The keynote speaker will be Dr. Robert M. Franklin Jr., president emeritus of Morehouse College.

Dr. Franklin is the James T. and Berta R. Laney Professor of Moral Leadership at Emory University in Atlanta. The author of three books, Dr. Franklin wrote the foreword to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” reprinted by The Trinity Forum in 2012.

Tickets are $50 and may be purchased online at www.vuu.edu/community_leaders_breakfast.aspx or in room 208 of VUU’s C.D. King Building at Lombardy and Leigh streets.

Details: www.vuu.edu or call the university’s Division of Institutional Advancement at (804) 342-3938. — LYNDON GERMAN