LEWISTON - Organizations from Lewis-Clark State College are joining others in the Lewiston-Clarkston Valley to help sponsor the annual Martin Luther King/Idaho Human Rights Day observance Monday night.

The event begins at 6 p.m. at the LCSC Amphitheatre on the east side of the Student Union Building where entertainment will be provided. At 6:30 p.m., there will be a short candlelight procession to the LCSC Activity Center.

The main program begins at 6:45 p.m., featuring "Global Heat," a collaboration of six professional, international musicians. The group comes together by combining the best of the Hip Hop, Jazz, R&B, and World Beat styles.

Following the performance, the Rev. Happy Watkins from the New Hope Baptist Church in Spokane will present some of Dr. Martin Luther King's speeches. Watkins is well-known throughout the Pacific Northwest as an orator of King's speeches.

The program is scheduled to conclude by 8:30 p.m. to encourage families with school-age children to attend.

LCSC says the local event has changed through the years. The original MLK observances were planned and held in Lapwai 22 years ago. In 1990, the observance moved to Lewiston, and that year 60 people attended. In 2008, more than 400 were in attendance.

The MLK/Idaho Human Rights Day observance in Lewiston has been, for the past several years, the single largest event of its kind in the state of Idaho, according to organizers. The observance events are funded entirely by donations and are coordinated by volunteers from the community.

In Moscow the Moscow Civic Association will sponsor a public forum at 7 p.m. Monday night at the 1912 Center with the goal of inspiring people to keep King's dream alive by making positive change in the community.

The forum is entitled "Keep the Dream Alive in Your Town -- How You Can Effect Positive Change." A panel of local community activists will guide forum participants through the steps it takes to influence and organize active participation and catalyze change.

The panel discussion will include questions from the audience. The panelists will be: Amy Grey, founder of Backyard Harvest; Nancy Chaney, mayor of Moscow; Jessica Bearman, founder of The Circle: Moscow Women Giving Together; and Arlene Falcon, founding member of Buy Local Moscow.