Poet, musician and actor Saul Williams, right, Maggie Ambrosino, lower right, and Erick Michael, below, participate in the "A Call to Action Through Spoken Word" event Jan. 25 at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre—part of the 19th annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Symposium. U-M students and local performers took to the stage to "break silence"—the symposium theme. (Photos by Lin Jones, U-M Photo Services)