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29th Annual Martin Luther King Convocation
January 20, 2022 @ 6:30 pm EST
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Bestselling author Michelle Alexander will speak at Loyola University Maryland’s annual Martin Luther King, Jr., Convocation on Thursday, Jan. 20, 2022, at 6:30 p.m., in Reitz Arena. “The New Jim Crow: An Evening with Michelle Alexander” convocation will be moderated by Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Ph.D., founding director of the Karson Institute for Race, Peace & Social Justice and associate professor of communication and African and African American Studies at Loyola. The lecture will also be livestreamed.
Alexander will offer new perspectives while discussing her critically acclaimed bestseller, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, which examines racial injustice in the modern legal system and calls us all to action for improved human rights in America.
A book signing will follow the lecture. This event is free and open to the public, but advance registration is required by Jan. 13, 2022. Read the full press release.
For more information, please call 410-617-2082 or write to OfficeOfTheCEIO@loyola.edu. Closed captioning will be provided.