Showing events on January 18, 2016
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Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Observance - University Symposia - No Regular Classes
January 18, 2016 ET
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MLK Day Event - Reflections on the Life and Legacy of Grace Lee Boggs: Fulfilling our Roles in the Fight for Justice Today
January 18, 2016 - 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM ET
Taking inspiration from the work, life, and legacy of Grace Lee Boggs, the School of Social Work and the Multicultural and Gender Affairs Committee are hosting a workshop and panel discussion on the future of activism and allyhood in the 21st century, including our place as "solutionaries" in movement building. Solutionaries are individuals who are creating alternative modes of work, politics, and human interaction that will collectively constitute the next American Revolution.
Grace Lee Boggs, who died in 2015 at the age of 100, was one of the nation’s oldest human rights activists, who waged a war of inspiration for civil rights, labor, feminism, the environment and other causes for seven decades with an unflagging faith that revolutionary justice was just around the corner. She was a philosopher and activist who was involved with the Civil Rights Movement, Black Power Movement, and decades of work in Detroit.