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From: Office of Institutional Diversity

Dear OSU community members: 

The Office of Institutional Diversity invites you to attend the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Keynote Address with Dr. Jelani Cobb on Feb. 1, 2023 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the LaSells Stewart Center on the Corvallis campus. 

Please register for the free keynote address, to be delivered in person and via livestream.  

Dr. Jelani Cobb is the Ira A. Lipman Professor of Journalism, Director of the Ira A. Lipman Center for Journalism and Civil and Human Rights, Dean of Columbia Journalism School and a staff writer at The New Yorker.  

Dr. Cobb was the frontline correspondent in the PBS documentary Whose Vote Counts which explored how racial inequities, COVID-19, and voter suppression became interlinked crises, contributing to a long legacy of inequality in the United States. Dr. Cobb also edited 2021 The Matter of Black Lives, a collection of writing from The New Yorker featuring the work of James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates and many others. 

Engagement Toolkit 

A toolkit was created to help community members to engage more deeply with this year’s Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration keynote and events. The toolkit contains resources and ideas for individual reflection, group dialogue and academic discourse. 

Commemoration Events  

An important part of the annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration are events organized by Oregon State community members across the state to collaboratively honor and carry forward the legacy of Dr. King. A full list of events is available here.  

Accommodation requests related to a disability for the keynote event should be made by Jan. 25 to University Events at 541-737-4717 or [email protected]. Sign language interpreting and live captioning will be provided. For additional information about the event, please contact the Office of Institutional Diversity at 541-737-1063 or [email protected].

Warm regards, 

The 2023 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration Committee, Office of Institutional Diversity 

Send Date: 
Thursday, January 19, 2023