MLK Symposium
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January 8, 2018
SMTD performance to celebrate musical life of African Americans
“Out of the Silence” will celebrate the musical life of African Americans during the late 19th and early 20th centuries and showcase seldom-heard works by several black American composers.
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January 8, 2018
No Safety Net talk to examine social justice and theater
Poet and playwright Claudia Rankine and dramaturg and producer P. Carl will discuss the relationship between theater and social justice, as well as how theater-making is an act of citizenship.
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January 8, 2018
James Forman Jr. to discuss incarceration and black leaders
James Forman Jr., a Yale Law School professor and former public defender, will argue how the decisions of black leaders played a role in the mass incarceration of people of color.
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January 8, 2018
Author, actor Hill Harper to deliver symposium keynote
Award-winning actor, best-selling author and philanthropist Hill Harper will deliver the 32nd annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Symposium keynote memorial lecture.
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January 7, 2018
Mabel O. Wilson to deliver Taubman lecture
Columbia University professor Mabel O. Wilson will deliver the A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning’s inaugural Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial lecture.
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November 7, 2017
Author, actor Hill Harper to deliver 2018 MLK Symposium keynote
Award-winning actor, best-selling author and philanthropist Hill Harper will deliver the 32nd annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Symposium keynote memorial lecture.
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October 13, 2017
2018 MLK Symposium to focus on ‘The Fierce Urgency of Now’
The theme of the 2018 U-M Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Symposium will be “The Fierce Urgency of Now.” The keynote memorial lecture for the annual symposium will be Jan. 15.
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January 24, 2017
Activist, writer Shaun King challenges notions of humanity’s progress
Writer and civil rights activist Shaun King told his audience at Rackham Auditorium that he was not there to inspire them, but to “give you a new lens to see the world.”
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January 17, 2017
MLK Symposium keynote speakers stress value of speaking out
Keynote speakers at U-M’s annual MLK Symposium honored past and present heroes who have fought for equal rights and representation, and stressed the importance of speaking up in pursuit of the truth.
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January 16, 2017
MLK keynote
In 1989, California State Assembly Speaker Willie Brown Jr. gave the opening address at Hill Auditorium as part of U-M’s celebrations honoring the great civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
