As Kent State's celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. came to end, the university's Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion hosted a final event to honor the civil rights activist and his legacy.The...
A speech by MSNBC national correspondent Joy-Ann Reid will serve as the climax to a week of events honoring the memory of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and celebrating diversity at Kent State.The...
The man who, as a college student, drove Martin Luther King Jr. to a multitude of events of the civil rights movement in the '60s, said students need to know more about the struggles, values and philosophy...
Kent State’s Department of Pan-African Studies said in a statement Friday it supports director Michael Oatman’s decision to cast a white actor to play Martin Luther King, Jr. in a recent production...
The Kent State Pan-African Studies department will premiere its stage play “The Mountaintop” on Sept. 25 at 8 p.m."The Mountaintop," by Katori Hall, is about Martin Luther King, Jr.’s last night...
“Unite and stand up.” When students at Kent State heard these words of advice in January 1967, they formed a student group that quickly gained influence not just on campus, but around the world.Originally...
“Selma,” the historically dramatic film of the struggles of Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement of the 1960s, has been receiving almost constant attention since its national release...
Martin Luther King Jr. taught only one class in his lifetime. Only eight students attended that class, held at Morehouse College in 1962. Julian Bond, one of those students, will present “From Civil...
Julian Bond, civil rights leader and former congressman, who also walked with and was taught by Martin Luther King Jr. during the Civil Rights Movement in the ‘60s, will visit Kent State Thursday, January...
The chronicle surrounding Martin Luther King Jr.’s campaign to secure equal voting rights in the Deep South was released nationwide earlier this month. The film couldn’t have come at a more appropriate...
Silent March. Photo by Rachael Le Goubin. Richard Serpe, chairperson of the department of sociology, recalled how in 1963, more than a quarter of a million people gathered in front of the Lincoln memorial...
ATLANTA (AP) — Hundreds of people filled Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta on Monday to remember and reflect on the legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., one of many events across the nation to...
