Martin Luther King Day Convocation

Knox College presents its annual Martin Luther King, Jr., Convocation at 11 a.m., Monday, January 18, in Harbach Theatre, Ford Center for the Fine Arts. The convocation is free and open to the public.

Three Knox College faculty will speak, three Knox students will present readings and poetry recitations, and the Knox College Choir will perform.

Professor Konrad Hamilton, Burkhardt Distinguished Chair in History, will give a talk, "Building with Creative Tension: the Protest Movement of Martin Luther King Jr."

Kwame Zulu Shabazz, Visiting Instructor of Africana Studies, will speak on "The Colorblind Problem: How the Refusal to See Race Undermines Social Justice."

Fred Hord, Professor of Africana Studies, will give a talk, "Our Lives Mutter."

The student presenters are Nicole Hunter, Catlin Watts and Francesca Downs.

King, who was assassinated in 1968, was a Nobel Peace Prize winner, a civil rights leader, minister, and president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. The third Monday in January is a national holiday in his honor.