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Martin Luther King Jr.

Color portrait of Harry L. Williams, president and CEO of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, on a campus background.

Educational leader Harry L. Williams to visit campus for MLK events

January 14, 2025

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Dates set for MLK Week community service opportunities

December 15, 2023

Tommie Smith

MLK Week to feature keynote by Olympian Tommie Smith

January 6, 2023

Lisa Ling

MLK Week to feature conversation with journalist Lisa Ling

January 10, 2022

MLK statue

Volunteers sought for MLK Week of Service

December 15, 2021

Helen Fagan

MLK award honors Fagan's commitment to diversity, inclusion

January 29, 2021

Dr. Bernice A. King

MLK Week to feature conversation with Bernice A. King

January 17, 2021

University closed for MLK Day

January 8, 2021

With Norman Rockwell's "The Problem We All Live With" in the background, civil rights icon Ruby Bridges delivers the MLK Week address on Jan. 22 in the Willa Cather Dining Center's Red Cloud Room. More than 275 attended the event. The painting depicts Bridges as she is led by U.S. Marshals into an all-white New Orleans school.

Huskers challenged to become guardians of MLK's legacy

January 23, 2020

The University of Nebraska–Lincoln will celebrate the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., who is shown here in a memorial in Washington, D.C., during the week of Jan. 21.

MLK Week keynote to feature Hudl’s Jasmine Kingsley

January 20, 2019

Society & Culture

Sculpture of Martin Luther King Jr. at the MLK Memorial in Washington, D.C.

MLK Week observance opens with youth rally, march

January 15, 2018

Sculpture of Martin Luther King Jr. at the MLK Memorial in Washington, D.C.

MLK Week events feature spoken word artist

January 12, 2018