The MLK Lecture 2025 with Professor Brandon Terry

The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture 2025
with Professor Brandon Terry, the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University
Thursday, April 3 | 7 pm
Princeton Public Library, Community Room
Library location and parking information
Also streaming live on YouTube

This event will also include a public conversation between Professor Brandon Terry and Dr. Eddie S. Glaude, the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor at Princeton University.

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Brandon M. Terry is the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University and the co-director of the Institute on Policing, Incarceration, and Public Safety at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research. Born in Baltimore, Terry earned a PhD with distinction in Political Science and African American Studies from Yale University, an MSc in Political Theory Research at the University of Oxford, and an AB, magna cum laude, in Government and African and African American Studies from Harvard College.

An award-winning scholar of African American political thought, political theory, and the politics of race and inequality, Brandon is the editor, with Tommie Shelby, of To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Harvard University Press, 2018) and the editor of Fifty Years Since MLK (Boston Review/MIT 2018). His forthcoming book is Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope: A Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement (Harvard University Press). He is currently at work on a book on the political thought and judgment of Malcolm X, tentatively titled Home to Roost: Malcolm X Between Prophecy and Peril (Penguin/Random House). He has also published work in Modern Intellectual History, Political Theory, TheNew York Review of Books, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Boston Review, Dissent, The Point, and New Labor Forum and been interviewed by The Ezra Klein Show, Vox, the New York Times, and other media outlets. He currently serves on the boards of Boston Review, Nomos, and Embrace Boston.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street, Princeton, United States