Two RIT Signature Events Coming in January to Honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. | December 2024
Let Freedom Ring!
The RIT Community is invited to our 8th annual Let Freedom Ring program on Monday, January 20, 2025. This moment of reflection honors the life and legacy of Nobel Peace Prize winner and civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
This year’s esteemed keynote speaker is Dr. Irshad Altheimer, Ellen M. Granberg Endowed Professor, professor of criminal justice and the director of the Center for Public Safety Initiatives at RIT.
The program is from 10:30 to 11:30 am in Ingle Auditorium. Gather with your friends and colleagues at a reception immediately following the program in Fireside Lounge.
An added bonus: a full-length documentary will also be shown beginning at noon in MOSAIC, featuring one of the many women, Dorothy Cotton, who worked behind the scenes with Dr. King.
This is an RIT only event. You can register here
Expressions of King’s Legacy
You can submit your questions now for American Civil Liberties Union President Deborah Archer, the keynote speaker at Expressions of King’s Legacy. Archer will deliver her remarks on the RIT campus Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at Gordon Field House. The annual event is from 12:00 to 2:00 PM.
Archer is a civil rights lawyer, scholar, and educator who says her commitment to fighting injustices started as a child. The daughter of Jamaican immigrants recalls she was 9 years old when she first experienced racism, classism, and anti-immigrant sentiment, when her family moved into a new home.
Today she serves as the eighth president of the ACLU. She is a leading advocate of civil rights and civil liberties. She is Professor of Clinical Law at the New York University School of Law, and Faculty Director of the Law School’s Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law.
Archer will speak, then take questions from the audience, but you must submit the questions in advance. You can do that when you register for Expressions of King’s Legacy here