Bakari Kitwana, journalist and author, will be a keynote speaker during the Martin Luther King Jr. celebration at Grand Valley.
Kitwana will lead the silent march on campus on January 16 and give an afternoon presentation in the Kirkhof Center. He will also be the evening speaker that day at the community event hosted by Grand Rapids Community College.
The author of four books, Kitwana is a senior media fellow at the Jamestown Project, a Harvard Law think-tank; and CEO of Rap Sessions, a company that conducts town hall meetings around the country on difficult topics facing the hip-hop generation.
Kitwana’s latest book is “Hip-Hop Activism in the Obama Era.” He earned a bachelor’s and two master’s degrees from the University of Rochester. Grand Valley will hold a week’s worth of events to commemorate the life and legacy of King.
Michelle Alexander, author of “The New Jim Crow,” will be on campus January 18-19. Keep updated on all events online at www.gvsu.edu/mlk.
