Eddie Glaude Jr., a professor of religion and African American studies at Princeton University, will deliver the University of Rochester’s 2020 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Address.
He’ll speak on Friday, January 24, at 6 p.m. in Strong Auditorium on the River Campus. The event is free and open to the public. Before his talk, Glaude will meet privately with student leaders from the College at Douglass Leadership House.
Glaude, who holds the title of James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor, is chair of the Department of African American Studies at Princeton and is the former president of the American Academy of Religion. Both an accomplished scholar and a dedicated public intellectual, he is the author of several monographs on religion and philosophy, and has also written in the New York Times and Time magazine and appeared on Meet the Press, CNN, and MSNBC.
His next book, Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own, will be released in April by Crown Publishing Group, a subsidiary of Penguin Random House.
The MLK Commemorative Address was instituted in 2001 to promote diversity, freedom, civil rights, and social justice. It’s co-sponsored by the Office of the President and the Office of Minority Student Affairs.
Past speakers include a wide range of prominent figures in civil rights, journalism, academia, the arts, and electoral politics.
