Martin Luther King Jr Memorial
17th Annual Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial
A Day to Reflect and Reimagine
On Monday, January 16, 2023, we honored Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy through service, learning, inspirational performances, poetry, and speeches. Dr. Maria Madison, Interim Dean of the Heller School for Social Policy and Management, was our keynote speaker for the evening program. She shared words of wisdom and reflected on the significance of the day.
Please enjoy the recording of the evening program
2023 MLK Planning Committee & Co-Sponsors
- Louis D. Brandeis Legacy Fund for Social Justice
- Dean of Students Office
- Intercultural Center
- Alumni Relations
- Alumni of Color Network
- Heller School for Social Policy and Management
- Center for Spiritual Life
- Community Engagement and Leadership
- Myra Kraft Transitional Year Program
- Samuels ’63 Center for Community Partnerships and Civic Transformation (COMPACT),
- Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
- Academic Services
- Office of Communications
- Cooperative Metropolitan Ministries
Organizations where you can continue to serve
- Africano Waltham
- Cooperative Metropolitan Ministries
- Healthy Waltham
- The New Democracy Coalition
- Newton-Wellesley Hospital
- Waltham Group
"Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve," Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
When Martin Luther King Jr. Visited Brandeis
While Martin Luther King Jr. is honored nationwide every third Monday in January with a federal holiday that bears his name, his legacy as a civil rights activist holds a particularly special place at Brandeis.
MLK visited campus twice, in 1957 and 1963, to lecture about justice, nonviolence and racism in America.
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