In honor and celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life and work, the Office of Multicultural Affairs invites you to explore these opportunities that can help us to take up Dr. King's unanswered question: "Where do we go from here?"
Listen to “Beyond Vietnam,” King’s speech at the Riverside Church in New York City on April 4, 1967 that draws out the interrelations between racism, poverty, and militarism
To get a sense of the breadth and complexity of the civil rights movement, A Time on Two Crossescollects the writings of Bayard Rustin, the openly gay organizer with the Fellowship of Reconciliation who advised King on the principles and practices of nonviolence during the year-long Montgomery Bus Boycott from 1955-56 and who was a key organizer of the 1963 March on Washington; historian Barbara Ransby’s biography, Ella Baker & the Black Freedom Movement offers a deep dive into the life and work of the organizer, intellectual, and teacher who was a key mentor to John Lewis, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Julian Bond, and Marian Wright Edelman among many others.
The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, founded by Coretta Scott King and headed by Dr. Bernice A. King, has events planned throughout the weekend culminating in a Beloved Community Commemorative Service on Monday, January 18, from 10:30 a.m. to 1:45 p.m EST that will include Rev. Dr. Raphael Warnock, the Senior Pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church and the first African American from Georgia elected to the Senate.
Take part in Eastern State Penitentiary’s commemoration of King’s 1963 “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” Half-hour sessions, running from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. EST on January 18, will focus on key passages in the text, led by students, educators, activists, and community members with space between each session for reflection through music, poetry, and art.
Register for “Black Art and Visions of Freedom,” a discussion led by Dr. Nicole Fleetwood--writer, curator, and professor of American Studies and Art History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick and author of Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration (2020)--on the centrality of African American visual artists and collectives to Black freedom struggles throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, in dialogue with artists from the African American Museum in Philadelphia’s Rendering Justice exhibition. Monday, January 18, 3:30-5:00 p.m. EST.
