The 2016 Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Convocation will feature Alicia Garza, Social Activist and Co-Creator of the Viral Twitter Hashtag and Movement, #BlackLivesMatter. Social activist Alicia Garza prompted activism nationwide when she introduced the world to the Twitter hashtag #BlackLivesMatter along with movement cofounders Opal Tometi and Patrisse Cullors. The hashtag evolved into the banner under which this generation’s civil rights movement marches. Garza, special projects...

31st Annual Martin Luther King, Jr Memorial Convocation

The 2013 Martin Luther King Jr. a Memorial Convocation featured Dr. Bob Moses, Harvard-trained educator who was a leader in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement and later founded the nationwide U.S. Algebra project.