BASSETERRE, St. KITTS, DECEMBER 31ST 2010 (CUOPM) – American Kevin McIlvaine, the multi talented entertainer, singer, historian, model, actor, director and ordained minister, who has traveled the world, using his gifts and talents to please audiences, will perform at the 10th Annual Prime Minister’s New Year’s Gala at the St. Kitts Marriott beach Resort and Royal Beach Casino.
The event takes place on Sunday 2nd January 2011 at 8 P.M. at which Charles Ogletree, the Harvard Law School Jesse Climenko Professor of Law, and Founding and Executive Director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, is the Guest Speaker.
An advocate of educating the youth, Kevin McIlvaine’s extensive musical career has included work with the Bradley Young Orchestra, studio session work, voice over work and more.
He has been featured at events like the Democratic National Convention and the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW).
Whether he's being himself or someone else, Kevin's smooth vocals bring pleasure to any crowd and his extraordinary vocal talents, turn events into an unforgettable experience.
Kevin has appeared on television, film and stage. This award winning actor starred in Purlie, Dreamgirls, Keep the Faith (The Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Story) and The Meeting, in which he has portrayed both Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
He is also well known for performing as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in such plays as The Meeting and Kevin is currently writing an original piece called, Dream in King.
Kevin won a Black Theater Alliance Award for Best Leading Actor In A Play (Musical or Revue) for his portrayal of Teddy Pendergrass in the Black Ensemble Theater’s production, I Am Who I Am. The show chronicles the life of Teddy Pendergrass who was considered to be soul music's number one sex symbol of the ‘70s.
Charles Ogletree, the Harvard Law School Jesse Climenko Professor of Law, and Founding and Executive Director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, is a prominent legal theorist who has made an international reputation by taking a hard look at complex issues of law and by working to secure the rights guaranteed by the Constitution for everyone equally under the law. Professor Ogletree opened the offices of The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice (http://www.charleshamiltonhouston.org) in September 2005 as a tribute to the legendary civil rights lawyer and mentor and teacher of such great civil rights lawyers as Thurgood Marshall and Oliver Hill. The Institute has engaged in a wide range of important educational, legal, and policy issues over the past 5 years. Professor Ogletree’s most recent publication is a book about the arrest of his colleague, Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., at his home in Cambridge in July 2009, which is entitled The Presumption of Guilt: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Race, Class, and Crime in America (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). In November 2009, NYU Press published Professor Ogletree’s book, co-edited with Professor Austin Sarat of Amherst College, The Road to Abolition: The Future of Capital Punishment in the United States. Also edited with Austin Sarat, When Law Fails: Making Sense of Miscarriages of Justice and From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State: Race and the Death Penalty in America were published by NYU Press in January of 2009 and May of 2006 respectively. His historical memoir, All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half-Century of Brown v. Board of Education (http://www.alldeliberatespeed.com), was published by W.W. Norton & Company in April 2004. Professor Ogletree also co-authored Beyond the Rodney King Story: An Investigation of Police Conduct in Minority Communities (Northeastern University Press 1995).
Professor Ogletree is a native of Merced, California, where he attended public schools. Professor Ogletree earned an M.A. and B.A. (with distinction) in Political Science from Stanford University, where he was Phi Beta Kappa. He also holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
In 2009 Professor Ogletree was awarded the prestigious ABA Spirit of Excellence Award in recognition of his many contributions to the legal profession. In 2008, the National Law Journal named Professor Ogletree one of the 50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America. Every year since 2006, Professor Ogletree has been named by Ebony Magazine as one of the 100+ Most Influential Black Americans. He was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award when he was inducted into the Hall of Fame for the National Black Law Students Association, where he served as National President from 1977-1978. Professor Ogletree also received the first ever Rosa Parks Civil Rights Award given by the City of Boston, the Hugo A. Bedau Award given by the Massachusetts Anti-Death Penalty Coalition, and Morehouse College’s Gandhi, King, Ikeda Community Builders Prize. He has also received honorary doctorates from several universities and colleges including Cambridge College, Wilberforce University, the University of Miami, the New England School of Law, Lincoln College, Tougaloo College, Mount Holyoke College, and Amherst College.
Professor Ogletree has been married to his fellow Stanford graduate, Pamela Barnes, since 1975. They are the proud parents of two children, Charles Ogletree III and Rashida Ogletree, and grandparents to three granddaughters, Marquelle, Nia Mae, and Jamila Ogletree. The Ogletrees live in Cambridge and are members of St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church.
