Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration

2026 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration

"Is it Worthwhile to Celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day"
Thursday, January 22, 2026
12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Pigott Auditorium

ABOUT THE KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Professor Randall L. Kennedy

Michael R. Klein Professor of Law, Harvard University

Member of the American Law Institute, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Association. 

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Randall Kennedy was born in Columbia, South Carolina.  For high school, he attended St. Albans School for Boys in Washington, D.C.   For college, he attended Princeton University.  He attended Balliol College, Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and received his legal education at Yale Law School.  He served as a law clerk to Judge J. Skelly Wright of the United States Court of Appeals and Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court.   Kennedy joined the faculty of Harvard Law School in 1984 and is currently the holder of the Michael R. Klein Professorship.  A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, Kennedy has been awarded honorary degrees by Princeton University and the University of Chicago.   He is the author of seven books, the most recent of which is “Say It Loud!  On Race, Law, History, and Culture.”