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Who: Students, faculty, staff and community members
What: �鶹��Ѱ�����Boulder Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Convocation featuring Nikole Hannah-Jones
When: Thursday, Jan. 14, 6–7:30 p.m.��(Doors open at 5:15 p.m.)
Where: Glenn Miller Ballroom, University Memorial Center, �鶹��Ѱ�����Boulder

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author and educator Nikole Hannah-Jones will give the keynote address at �鶹��Ѱ�����Boulder’s fourth annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Convocation on Thursday, Jan. 14.

The free event, open to students, faculty, staff and local community members, will take place from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in the Glenn Miller Ballroom at the University Memorial Center.��, and those with accommodation requests can email��lspevents@colorado.edu.��

The convocation’s perennial purpose is to honor King’s rich legacy by centering intersectional solidarity, confronting systemic racism, dismantling systems of oppression and uplifting shared humanity through authentic community engagement.

“As we mark �鶹��Ѱ�����Boulder’s fourth annual MLK convocation, we reaffirm our commitment to honoring Dr. King’s legacy not as a static historical moment but as a living call to collective action,” said David Humphrey, associate vice chancellor for leadership support and programming. “Nikole Hannah-Jones’s work forces us to examine how systems of inequality shape our present. We are honored to welcome her to campus to inspire deep reflection, dialogue and community connection.”

Hannah-Jones is the creator of�� and a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine. Her reporting on racial inequality and systemic injustice has earned her a MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellowship, a Peabody Award, two George Polk Awards and the National Magazine Award three times.

Both the book version of the project, “The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story,” and her children’s book “Born on the Water” were instant No. 1 New York Times bestsellers, and “The 1619 Project” was adapted into an acclaimed six-part docuseries on Hulu.

Beyond her journalism, Hannah-Jones serves as the Knight Chair of Race and Journalism at Howard University, where she founded the Center for Journalism & Democracy. She is also the co-founder of the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting, an organization dedicated to increasing the number of investigative reporters and editors of color and in 2022 opened the 1619 Freedom School, a free after-school literacy program in her hometown of Waterloo, Iowa.

The keynote address and moderated discussion are co-sponsored by the��Office of Leadership Support and Programming and the��Center for African and African American Studies.