About this Event
On January 20, 2025, we invite you to join us as we commemorate the life and legacy of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at Lincoln University of Pennsylvania.
By popular demand, we wll serve chicken and waffles (with lots of other dishes) at our Annual Fellowship Brunch. You will meet old and new friends in the Beloved Community and enjoy civil rights-themed choir performances, readings from Dr. King's sermons, and more, including tours of the campus, exhibitions and vendors.
Our keynote speaker is Dr. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, professor of Afro-American Studies, African American Religion and the Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and African American Studies at Harvard University.
Dr. Higginbotham has been a tenured faculty member at Harvard since 1993, and she chaired the Department of African and African Americans Studies from 2006-2013. Higginbotham became the National President of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History in January 2016. This organization was founded by Carter G. Woodson in 1915.
She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Rochester in American History, her M.A. from Howard University, and her B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has thoroughly revised and re-written the classic African American history survey From Slavery to Freedom, which was first published by John Hope Franklin in 1947. She is the co-author with the late John Hope Franklin of this book’s ninth edition, which came out in 2010. A pioneering scholar in African American women’s history, she is the author of the prizewinning book Righteous Discontent: The Women’s Movement in the Black Baptist Church 1880-1920. She is also co-editor with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., of the African American National Biography, now in its second edition (2013). This twelve-volume resource presents African American history through the lives of more than 5,000 biographical entries.
An Inauguration Watch Party and "Be a King" Volunteer Fair will be offered in the afternoon.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Lincoln University - Wellness Center, 1570 Baltimore Pike, Lincoln University, United States
USD 23.18 to USD 55.20