Anti-Racism and Black Liberation in the context of Jesuit Education

1442 West Wisconsin Avenue,Milwaukee WI 53233

22 March, 2023

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Please join us for Marquette University's annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture with Dr. Yohuru Williams. In this lecture Dr. Williams will explore the social responsibility of the Jesuit University in contemporary conversations about racial justice through the lens of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr’s liberatory thought, Catholic Social Teaching, his scholarship on Black Power, and his experiences with Ignatian Spirituality and Jesuit education as an undergraduate student, faculty member, department chair, associate VP for academic affairs, and trustee. ++++++++++ Dr. Yohuru Williams is Distinguished University Chair and Professor of History and Founding Director of the Racial Justice Initiative at the University of St. Thomas. He received his Ph.D. from Howard University in 1998. Dr. Williams is the author, editor, and or co-author of numerous books including Call Him Jack: The Story of Jackie Robinson, Black Freedom Fighter; After Life. A Collective History of Loss and Redemption in Pandemic America; Rethinking the Black Freedom Movement; and In Search of the Black Panther Party. In addition to being a regular contributor on the History channel, Dr. Williams has appeared on a variety of local and national radio and television programs including ABC, CNN, MSNBC, Almanac, BET, and NPR. He was featured in the Ken Burns PBS Documentary "Jackie Robinson" and the Stanley Nelson PBS Documentary "The Black Panthers." Dr. Williams' scholarly articles have appeared in the American Bar Association’s Insights on Law and Society, The Organization of American Historians Magazine of History, The Black Scholar, The Journal of Black Studies, Pennsylvania History, Delaware History, the Journal of Civil and Human Rights and the Black History Bulletin. Dr. Williams new co-authored book More Than. A Dream. The Radical Roots of the March on Washington will be out in August from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.