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University News

Commencement Speaker Rep. John Lewis Champions Civil Rights

May 17, 2018

Cover of MLK's personal copy of the Montgomery Bus Boycott comic book guide

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MLK on Display at BU’s Gotlieb Center

April 5, 2018

Ed Coaxum speaks at a memorial service on for Martin Luther King, Jr. the day after he was assassinated, Marsh Plaza, Boston University, 1968

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Alums Share Memories of Dark Days of April 1968

April 4, 2018

A protester holds a poster with a picture of Martin Luther King. The sign says, "I have the same dream."

Marsh Chapel

BU Honors Martin Luther King, Jr. (GRS’55, Hon.’59)

April 2, 2018

Martin Luther King leading march from Selma to Montgomery to protest lack of voting rights for African Americans. Beside King is John Lewis, Reverend Jesse Douglas, James Forman and Ralph Abernathy.

Voices & Opinion

POV: As It Was for MLK, the Present and Future Should Be Our Focus

April 2, 2018

Mahalia Jackson speaks at podium alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Arts & Culture

A Nearly Forgotten Moment in Civil Rights History

February 15, 2018

Martin Luther King, Jr., receiving an honorary degree from BU

Religion

BU, City of Boston to Celebrate MLK on Monday

January 12, 2018

Randall Keith Horton

University News

MLK Day Commemoration to Feature Duke Ellington Music

January 13, 2017

US Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera

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US Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera Keynotes MLK Celebration

January 15, 2016

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., is completely hemmed in as he and his aide Rev. Ralph Abernathy, right, lead march to historic Boston Common, April 23, 1965. King came to Boston to lead the demonstration to protest segregation in schools, jobs and housing. He will address a gathering at the Common. (AP Photo)

Alumni

From Selma to Stonewall

January 15, 2016

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University News

Celebrating Dr. King

January 16, 2015

Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream speech, Free at Last speech, Lincoln Memorial address, March on Washington, August 28, 1963, opinion, op-ed, editorial, Boston University Dean of Students Kenneth Elmore

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POV: Dean Elmore on MLK and 50th Anniversary of March on Washington

August 28, 2013

Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream speech, Free at Last speech, Lincoln Memorial address, March on Washington, August 28, 1963

Alumni

MLK’s “I Have a Dream” Speech—50 Years Later

August 26, 2013

Actor Oscar Winner Forest Whitaker, Boston University Martin Luther King Day MLK lecture

University News

Forest Whitaker Honored as BU MLK Fellow

January 23, 2013

Free at Last sculpture by Sergio Castillo, Marsh Chapel Plaza, Boston University, Martin Luther King Jr MLK

University News

Finding the Meaning of Free at Last

January 17, 2013

Howard Thurman, The Papers of Howard Washington Thurman, Volume 2: Christian, Who Calls Me Christian book by author Walter Fluker

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MLK’s Mentor Revealed

January 13, 2012

Martin Luther King, Jr. national memorial, Washington D.C.

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More of Us Should Have Been There

October 18, 2011

Marsh Chapel

University to Celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr., Day

January 14, 2011

Martin Luther King

How a Man Became an Icon

January 13, 2011

Gotlieb

Dear Martin

January 12, 2007

Dear Martin