A free, masks-required event begins at noon at Citizens Field, 1400 NE Eighth Ave. in Gainesville.
There will be speakers and later in the afternoon, gospel performances by Canton Jones and the Florida Fellowship Super Choir.
Community activist Aeriel Lane will be celebrated for her work. She is the winner of the 2021 Hall of Fame Award from the Martin Luther King Jr. Commission of Florida Inc., a local nonprofit organization.
And Taylor Hill-Miles, an Eastside High School senior and the recipient of the 2021 Edna M. Hart Keeper of the Dream Scholarship Award, will also be celebrated.
Rodney Long, the commission s founder, said Lane is committed to racial, economic empowerment and social justice.
Early last year, I realized that I would be 50 years old by the end of 2020. With a positive twist instead of a cliché mid-life crisis, I made a list of things I wanted to do before this half-century mark.
This list consisted of fun activities, physical and mental exercises, simplifying possessions, journaling, taking trips and finding ways to stretch out of my comfort zone. I started off by going to Georgia with my dog to hike.
Each day I jumped rope, walked and read a chapter of 50 life lessons. I finally took tennis lessons, biked the Hawthorne trail, kayaked at night and even went skydiving. I called it my “Fifty Days to Fifty.”