RIT is Hosting Two Signature Events to Honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. this Month! | January 2023
Register now for Let Freedom Ring and Expressions of King’s Legacy.
Let Freedom Ring will be held for the RIT Community on Monday, January 16th featuring RIT’s Katrina Overby, assistant professor, School of Communication, College of Liberal Arts. Overby will share her personal experiences with activist scholarship, “untraditional scholarship” and social media activism in her talk entitled, “From Marching to Tweeting: An Activist Scholar's Journey Toward Digital Disruption and Dissecting Discourses”. The program is in Ingle Auditorium from 10:30 am-11:30am. Be sure to stop by Fireside Lounge right after for good food and fellowship. We’re also offering a brief film screening and discussion of “The Promised Land 1967-1968” from the Eyes on the Prize documentary series, led by Diversity Education Director Taj Smith. That’s happening just a few steps away in the 1829 Room from 12:30 p.m. until 2 p.m. in the Student Alumni Union.
Register for Let Freedom Ring here
Nikole Hannah-Jones is the featured speaker for the 41st annual Expressions of King’s Legacy program Tuesday, January 31st. She is the Pulitzer-prize winning creator with The New York Times Magazine of The 1619 Project. The book version of the project became an instant #1 New York Times bestseller. Hannah-Jones is an investigative journalist with a keen focus on racial inequality and injustice. Her work has been acknowledged with the MacArthur Fellowship, known as the Genius grant, a Peabody Award, two George Polk Awards and the National Magazine Award three times. Hannah-Jones serves as the Knight Chair of Race and Journalism at Howard University, where she is founding the Center for Journalism & Democracy. She is also the co-founder of the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting, which seeks to increase the number of investigative reporters and editors of color. Hannah-Jones is from Waterloo, Iowa where she recently opened the 1619 Freedom School, a free, afterschool literacy program. She holds a Master of Arts in Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and earned her BA in History and African-American studies from the University of Notre Dame.