Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, founder and president of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, was the keynote speaker at the Johns Hopkins Institutions' 23rd Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration. The event, which took place earlier this month, awarded nine Johns Hopkins employees, five from the university and four from the hospital, with the institutions' annual Martin Luther King Jr. Awards for Community Service. The employees received recognition for their volunteerism and community work during 2004. Here, Kweisi Mfume, former head of the NAACP; Jackson; and Levi Watkins, professor of cardiac surgery and chair of the commemoration, field questions from the media during a brief press conference following the event. PHOTO BY KEITH WELLER

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