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Civil-rights activist the Rev. Al Sharpton will be in Columbus this week as part of Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrations at local universities.

Sharpton is to be at the Ohio Union at Ohio State University at 7 tonight to participate in a dialogue with Jamal Watson, a Washington, D.C., writer and lecturer who wrote a forthcoming biography of Sharpton. At 9:30 a.m. Thursday, Sharpton is to speak during a two-hour Columbus State Community College program at the Lincoln Theatre in the King-Lincoln District.

The visits are among events at both schools that run through this weekend.

Sharpton has been in the news lately after criticizing police in several high-profile cases in which African-Americans were killed. He has represented the family of Eric Garner, a 43-year-old Staten Island man who died last year after a New York police officer held him in a chokehold.

Columbus City Schools students are off today because of a new records day that allows teachers to perform record-keeping tasks.

If only the district could have looked into its crystal ball and seen that Ohio State Universitys football team would be playing in the national title game on Monday night, it could have scheduled the day off for yesterday, and students would have been able to sleep in.

But then again, there probably wouldnt have been much record-keeping going on yesterday, as fans continued to recover from celebrating the victory the night before. So maybe the call was the right one after all.

Also, records day falls on the day that former Superintendent Gene Harris is expected to plead no contest to dereliction of duty in the districts records-scrubbing scandal, which is kind of fitting. Because under Harris, records day had an entirely different meaning.

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The Rev. Al Sharpton is accompanied by Esaw Garner, center, wife of Eric Garner, who died in a chokehold incident with a New York City Police officer, and Gwen Carr, mother of the deceased, as he places a wreath at the scene of the occurrence last month. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

CITY HALL -- Eric Garner's family will join the Rev. Al Sharpton at a wreath-laying where two police officers were assassinated in Brooklynand hold a candlelight vigil in Tompkinsville on Martin Luther King Jr. Day next week.

The group, which includes Garner's widow Esaw and his mother Gwen Carr, will lead a caravan of buses to the wreath-laying and candlelight vigil after a policy forum at Sharpton's Harlem headquarters on Monday afternoon.

"We're going to travel through the boroughs," Carr said on Tuesday. "We're doing that on Martin Luther King Day to commemorate his birthday and remember what the struggle is about."

In addition to praying where Detectives Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos were slain in Brooklyn, the group will also hold a vigil for Akai Gurley on Monday. Gurley was unarmed when he was shot and killed by a police officer in a dark public housing stairwell last year.

Garner diedafter being placed in an apparent chokehold by a police officer during an arrest attempt in Tompkinsville last summer. Since a grand jury's decision not to indict in the case, demonstrations and vigils have been regularly held on Staten Island and across the city.

Carr's mother said she hasn't gotten protest fatigue since the controversial decision last year.

"I got to do what I got to do to get justice," she said.

Here is a complete schedule of city events Sharpton has planned for Monday's holiday:

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