THE FIERCE URGENCY OF NOW:

Martin Luther King, Jr. Elementary School Library Book Drive

Children’s books can be dropped off at the School of Social Work or purchased from MLK Elementary School’s Amazon wish list. An additional way to serve is to volunteer your time as a “Reading Buddy.” Story time is approximately 30 minutes. You are welcome to sign up as many times as you like. The school is housed at a temporary location: 3834 21st St. Tuscaloosa, AL 35401; 205-759-3619. Remember the name of the teacher you have signed up for and notify the office when you arrive so they know how to direct you. Katherine Baxter is the school librarian and is also available to assist.

Sponsored by the School of Social Work

Miss Lucy and The Mob: The First Desegregation of The University of Alabama

Exhibit shares the attempt of Autherine Lucy to desegregate The University of Alabama. Martin Luther King, Jr. Elementary School

Sponsored by UA Special Collections

The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Tabling at the Ferguson Center

Sponsored by the Intercultural Diversity Center

Reading at Alberta Head Start

Sponsored by the Black Faculty and Staff Association

Martin Luther King, Jr. - "The American Dream"

Excerpts from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “The American Dream” speech, originally delivered at Ebenezer Baptist Church on July 4, 1965

Bedsole Courtroom, Room 140, Law School

Lunch will be provided. RSVP required.

Sponsored by the School of Law

MLK DAY OF SERVICE: A DAY ON–NOT A DAY OFF

Volunteer check-in at 8 a.m., Center for Service and Leadership lobby, ground floor of Ferguson Student Center. Activities continue through noon. Students will be provided transportation to a service site of their choice. Register through the Center for Service and Leadership. Contact the Center at volunteer.ua.edu or 205-348-2865.

Sponsored by the Center for Service and Leadership, Division of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Stuff a Bag of Love

Donations of shelf milk, cereal, fruit cups, apple sauce, juice boxes and more can be delivered to Room 102D, Ancillary Services Building through Jan. 16. Bags will be stuffed 9-11 a.m., Jan. 20 in the Ferguson Center.

Ferguson Center

Sponsored by the Black Faculty and Staff Association

"Martin Luther King, Jr. Streets as Unfinished Civil Rights Work"

Dr. Derek Alderman, professor of Geography, University of Tennessee

118 Graves Hall

Sponsored by the College of Communication and Information Sciences

The Basis of Power

Boots Riley
Activist, musician and director of “Sorry to Bother You”

Room 30, ten Hoor

Sponsored by the Department of Gender and Race Studies

Lunch Discussion with Yusef Salaam

Moot Courtroom, Law School

The Honorable John England will moderate the discussion

Sponsored by the Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, School of Social Work, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, School of Law

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture

YUSEF SALAAM, a member of the Exonerated Five (formerly the Central Park Five)

Salaam was one of five teen boys – black and Latino – from Harlem who were incarcerated for raping a white woman in 1989. Now exonerated, Salaam shares his story, which leads to important questions about race and class, the failings of our criminal justice system, legal protections for vulnerable juveniles, and fundamental human rights.

Campus Presentation: Ferguson Ballroom

Book signing immediately following the lecture. Salaam’s book “Words of a Man: My Right to Be” can be purchased at the University Supply Store.
Students can receive Greek points.

Free and Open to the Public

Sponsored by the Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, School of Social Work, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, School of Law

Monopolizing Wealth: Understanding Race- and Class-Based Inequality

A lunch and learn for students about social class and inequality.

John England Hall

Registration Form

Sponsored by the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, College of Human Environmental Sciences, Culverhouse College of Business, and Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion