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Campus Events

Perspectives show invites students to embrace diverse experiences

Emily May
By Emily May
March 01, 2024 12:00 AM
BYU’s Multicultural Student Serviceshosted Perspectives on Friday, Feb. 16, exhibiting diverse cultural traditions and encouraging attendees to cultivate a deeper understanding of their shared humanity.
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Campus Events

Students, community members walk by candlelight to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr.

By Sicily Stanton
January 23, 2022 12:00 AM
BYU students and members of the Provo community gathered on campus to commemorate the life and mission of Martin Luther King Jr. on Jan. 19.
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Devotionals and Forums

Martin Luther King III to speak at BYU

By Lilli Vehikite
September 27, 2021 12:00 AM
Martin Luther King III, lawyer and human rights advocate, will address BYU in a campus forum on Sept. 28 at 11:05 a.m.
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Campus Events

MLK memorial speaker urges BYU students to listen to others' experiences

By Elena Castro
January 22, 2021 12:00 AM
BYU’s Multicultural Student Services and Black Student Union held a Martin Luther King Jr. memorial on Jan. 21 focused on 'leaning in and listening.'
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Devotionals and Forums

'We have the ability to bridge religious divides' interfaith leader Eboo Patel tells students in BYU forum

By Maddie Christensen
October 20, 2020 12:00 AM
The mark of a truly educated person is understanding those of different religions, interfaith leader Eboo Patel told BYU students in a BYU forum on Oct. 20.
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Nation

Admirers mourn King, pledge to carry on unfinished work

By Associated Press
April 09, 2018 12:00 AM
People gather for events commemorating the 50th anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on Wednesday, April 4, 2018, in Memphis, Tenn. King was assassinated April 4, 1968, while in Memphis supporting striking sanitation workers. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
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Nation

Speeches, marches mark Martin Luther King anniversary

By Associated Press
April 04, 2018 12:00 AM
People gather for events commemorating the 50th anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on Wednesday, April 4, 2018, in Memphis, Tenn. King was assassinated April 4, 1968, while in Memphis supporting striking sanitation workers. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
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Nation

Things you should know today: 4/4/18

By Riley Waldman
April 04, 2018 12:00 AM
China lists $50 billion of U.S. goods it might hit with 25 percent tariff
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Nation

Martin Luther King Jr.'s work still resonates across Africa

By Associated Press
April 02, 2018 12:00 AM
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Streets. Schools. A bridge in Burkina Faso. The name of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. can be found across Africa, a measure of the global influence of the American civil rights leader who was shot dead 50 years ago after speaking out against injustices at home and abroad.
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Nation

Things you should know today: 4/2/18

By Carley Porter
April 02, 2018 12:00 AM
Trump calls for border legislation using 'nuclear option'
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Campus Events

Annual Community Outreach Day unites community through service and celebration of MLK’s legacy

By Sarah Matthews
January 16, 2018 12:00 AM
BYU’s Y-Serve united community members, young and old, through various service projects celebrating the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. Jan. 15.
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Nation

How MLK might react to today's civil rights movements

By Kaitlyn Bancroft
January 15, 2018 12:00 AM
The Rev. France A. Davis recalled participating in the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama as both exciting and scary — “exciting in that we knew we were making changes; scary because we didn’t ever know for sure how safe we were,” Davis said.
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Campus Events

Civil rights activist and Baptist minister speaks at BYU

By Whitney Hales
January 20, 2016 12:00 AM
He was in Washington, D.C. when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said he had a dream. He marched from Selma to Montgomery to demonstrate for African-Americans' voting rights. He's a respected religious leader. And he's speaking at BYU on Thursday, Jan. 21.
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Local

World Congress of Families IX: Abortion harms women and the unborn

By Alex Clark
October 27, 2015 12:00 AM
Alveda King, niece of Martin Luther King, Jr., speaks about her own experience with abortion and how it harms women at the World Congress of Families on Tuesday. King is director of African-American outreach for Priests for Life and Gospel Life Ministries. (Alex Clark)
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Religion

Parliament of the World's Religions: Heroism embodied in Mandela, King

By Cassidy Hansen
October 18, 2015 12:00 AM
Rev. Dr. Joan Brown Campbell recalled how her granddaughter was asking her family for help in learning about civil rights activist Martin Luther King, when her family told her that she should ask her grandmother instead, because she knew King.
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Campus

BYU Civil rights trip: Helping students see more than black and white

By Kristina Tieken
February 14, 2014 12:00 AM
A BYU class with a five-day tour of Civil Rights Movement sites helps students connect with recent history and understand expectations for the future.
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Local

King's dream 50 years later

By Megan Looney
January 25, 2013 12:00 AM
Clarence B. Jones, civil rights adviser, attorney and speech writer to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., greeted a packed audience at UVU's Sorenson Center ballroom on Thursday by singing a verse of a post-Civil War freedom song.
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Campus Events

A day united in service

January 16, 2012 12:00 AM
A free day from school Monday provided students and community members with the opportunity to give service and honor the life and work of Martin Luther King Jr.
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