2022 Week of Events Celebrating the Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
Please note all events will be held virtually
Monday, January 17th – MLK Day – UConn Day of Service
9:00-3:00 pm
UConn Community Outreach/Campus-Wide Service Initiatives invite you to join us on Monday, January 17th, 2022, to honor Martin Luther King Jr. and have a day of acknowledgement, educational panels, and service to give back to the Mansfield community. Within this event will be various speakers and topics of focus, along with services that are directly impacting and helping the lives of others. Panels will include the following topics: environmental racism, the incarceration system, and racism as a public health crisis. Our goal is to give everyone something to leave with and remember to stand up for. We want to remember why MLK fought for social justice, and how we can keep his efforts alive.
*Note: In-person service opportunities to be done later in the semester.
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Tuesday, January 18th – National Day of Racial Healing
2:00-3:30 pm
The Office for Diversity and Inclusion is hosting a virtual event in honor of the National Day of Racial Healing featuring guest speaker Feminista Jones.
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Wednesday, January 19th, “What Did MLK, Jr., Ask of Us? Striving to Meet his Ideals on Campus”
12:30-1:15pm
UConn Avery Point Global Café and the Avery Point Director’s Office invite you to join Michael Bradford, a renowned playwright who was a student at Avery Point, later taught drama here, and is now UConn’s Vice Provost for Faculty, Staff, and Student Development. He and the Global Café coordinators will lead a virtual discussion using MLK’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail”.pdf as a launching point as we reflect on how we’re striving to live King’s dream in our own personal and professional lives.
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Thursday, January 20th – 2022 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Living Legacy Convocation
5:00 pm-7:00 pm
The Office for Diversity and Inclusion and Alumni Relations are happy to announce that the 2022 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Living Legacy Convocation will take the TED Talk format. Our speakers represent faculty, staff, students, and alumni from across all UConn locations.
Speakers:
- Michael Bradford – Vice Provost for Faculty, Staff, and Student Development
- Amayia Cordova – Undergraduate Student in Mathematics & Healthcare Analysis
- Wiley Dawson – Assistant Director, Center for Career Development, Hartford
- Dr. Sandy Grande – Professor of Political Science and Native American & Indigenous Studies
- Dr. Oscar Guerra – Assistant Professor of Film & Video, Stamford
- Rhys Hall '18 (CLAS)– Graduate Student in Sociology
- Khamani Harrison '17 (ENGR) – owner of The Key Bookstore, Hartford
- Dr. Khalilah Hunter-Anderson '08 (MED) - Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
- Tony Omega '10 (CLAS) – Academic Advisor, Waterbury
2021 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Living Legacy Convocation
The Office for Diversity and Inclusion is happy to announce that Dr. Ibram Kendi, a renowned historian and leading antiracist scholar, will be the keynote speaker at the 2021 MLK Jr. Living Legacy Convocation.
Topic: How to be Antiracist: Implications for Individuals, Institutions and Society
Date: January 21, 2021
Time: 6:00 - 7:30pm
Format: Virtual
Other performances include:-
Spoken Word - Carl Dean Jr.
Musical Performance - Voices of Freedom
REGISTRATION REQUIRED
- For members of the UConn Community with NetIDs
- For UConn Alumni Registration closes on Jan 20th.
We thank Alumni Relations for supporting us with UConn Alumni registration.
2020 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Living Legacy
The Featured Artist is Producer and Musical Director Damien Sneed.
2019 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Living Legacy
The keynote speaker is the Honorable Richard A. Robinson, the first African-American Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court.
2018 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Living Legacy
Reimagining Equality: Anita Hill