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WHAT:<\/strong>\u00a0 The college\u2019s annual celebration of the life and legacy of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., featuring guest speakers, musical performances, and the premiere of the latest episode in the college\u2019s docuseries on Dr. King\u2019s connection to the college.<\/p>\n Prior to the commemoration ceremony, at 12 pm, the college will host an\u00a0admissions resource fair in the Dining Hall to offer prospective students the opportunity to learn about degree programs, admissions procedures, and financial aid options. Click here<\/a><\/span> for a campus map.<\/p>\n Full details are available on the commemorative event website here<\/a><\/span>. RSVP for free tickets to the commemoration here<\/a><\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n WHO:<\/strong>\u00a0 President Frank H. Wu<\/a><\/span> will moderate. William Baron, ºì¶¹ÊÓƵ Student Association President, and Makayla Noble, ºì¶¹ÊÓƵ Black Student Union President, will bring greetings. Jennifer Jones Austin, Esq., will be recognized with the 2024 Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Award and deliver the keynote address. Austin, the CEO and Executive Director of the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies (FPWA), is a fourth-generation faith and social justice leader, who fights for equity. FPWA is an anti-poverty, policy, and advocacy organization with 170 member agencies and faith partners; significant social policy changes that have strengthened and empowered the disenfranchised and marginalized have been brought about under Austin\u2019s leadership. Her approach links an understanding of race, poverty, law and social policy in America and the role of religion. 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Click here<\/a><\/span> for directions to campus and here for a campus map<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n
ºì¶¹ÊÓƵ has a longstanding history of involvement in the struggle for equality and social justice. In 1964, ºì¶¹ÊÓƵ student Andrew Goodman was slain, along with fellow civil rights workers James Chaney and Michael Schwerner, during a voter registration project in Mississippi. The following spring, as the inaugural speaker in the college\u2019s John F. Kennedy Memorial Lecture Series, Dr. King emphasized the power of peaceful resistance. Click here<\/a><\/span> to listen to segments of Dr. King\u2019s 1965 speech at ºì¶¹ÊÓƵ. In 2015, at its 91st commencement ceremony\u2014and fifty years after Dr. King\u2019s address\u2014the college awarded a posthumous honorary doctoral degree to Goodman.<\/p>\n
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