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On Wednesday, January 14 at 6 p.m., Cambridge Public Library will host Dr. Brandon M. Terry for the 51st Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture. Dr. Terry will deliver a keynote address celebratingthe life and the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. This event is hybrid, and registration is required.
Dr. Terry is the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University and Co-director of the Institute on Policing, Incarceration, and Public Safety at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research. He is the author of Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope: A Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement and is coeditor, with Tommie Shelby, of To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. and editor of Fifty Years Since MLK.
This event is cosponsored by the Mayor's Office, the City Manager's Office, Cambridge Public Library, and the Cambridge Public LibraryFoundation. It is free and open to the public.
“Every year, we host the Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture to honor and advance the legacy of Dr. King,” says Dr. Maria McCauley, Director of Libraries. “We’re honored to welcomeDr. Terry this year to speak to the importance of Dr. King’s work and how that work continues today.”
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