Oct 17, 2011 – Israeli-born violinist prodigy, Miri Ben-Ari, who received a violin from Isaac Stern at age 12, performed with the POEM-CEES at the dedication ceremony for the new Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial in Washington, D.C. It was an original composition, and the POEM-CEES, a nationally-known hip-hop and spoken word group get into the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a time of activism without cell phones, Facebook, and Tweets.