[Mitworld] New: The 30th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration

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The 30th Annual  MIT  Breakfast Celebrating the Life and Legacy of 
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  presents

Dr. Charles Vest
President of MIT

"Challenges of the Past, Present and Future"


President Vest reflects on the the progress made and the work yet to 
be done to achieve a more racially balanced university.


Keynote speaker
Dr. Julianne Malveaux

Rhetoric or Reality: Civil rights Under Siege

In this riveting keynote address, economist and author Dr. Julianne 
Malveaux takes on institutional hypocrisy as it relates to economic 
justice and issues of race in the US.

These are the first two of four talks from this year's MLK 
Celebration.  Reflections by
Nicholas Pearce '07 and graduate student Bruce Webster will be 
available on MIT World soon.



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