Manchester University’s annual presentation in commemoration of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. will feature internationally recognized scholar Dr. Stacey Floyd-Thomas on Monday, Feb. 12.
Manchester University’s annual presentation in commemoration of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. will feature internationally recognized scholar Dr. Stacey Floyd-Thomas on Monday, Feb. 12.
This presentation is at 11 a.m. in Cordier Auditorium at the North Manchester campus. It is free and open to the public. It will also be livestreamed on Manchester’s Facebook page.
In the hindsight of the 60th anniversary of the “I Have a Dream Speech,” and the 55th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., Floyd-Thomas will explore the meaning of the man, mission, and movement of King in relationship to our troubled times. As a moral theologian, religious leader and social activist, Floyd-Thomas will lecture about what can be gleaned, as well as what hope may be found, from King’s lifework in addressing our country’s present needs.
Dr. King's final campus address was given on Feb. 1, 1968, at Manchester University.
Floyd-Thomas is the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Chair and Professor of Ethics and Society at Vanderbilt University. In the tradition of King, she is a moral theologian and an ordained pastoral counselor in both the Progressive National Baptist Convention and the American Baptist Church.
She is the author of 10 books, including her most recent, Religion, Race, and COVID-19: Confronting White Supremacy in the Pandemic.
This presentation is sponsored by the Peace Studies Institute’s Zunkel Fund and the Long Lecture Fund. It is part of Manchester’s Values, Ideas and the Arts (VIA) series.
For the media
The primary organizer for this event is Katy Gray Brown, professor of philosophy and peace studies, klgraybrown@manchester.edu.
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