The University of Colorado Boulder's 2025 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Convocation will take place on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025, from 2-4:30 p.m. in Macky Auditorium. The convocation is open to faculty, staff, students and local and regional community constituents and will create space to both honor and reflect on Dr. King’s legacy within current sociopolitical contexts. The speaker for convocation will be Ms. Isabel Wilkerson, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of the bestsellers The Warmth of Other Sons and Caste.
Join the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Denver "Marade," (march + parade), the only one of its kind in the nation.
Starting at 9:30 a.m. in Downtown Denver, with the Dr. King Legacy Bike Ride to follow.
From the Volunteer Resource Center: Search for short-term or long-term volunteer opportunities.
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Rev. Dr. King's legacy is continued through the work of many people toward his vision of the Beloved Community. On this guide, you'll find organizations and opportunities for service guided by King's principles, with a focus on work by and for Black communities. In the spirit of the King Center and CU Boulder themes for the holiday, this guide also suggests resources around healing, protest, and nonviolence through an intersectional and decolonial lens.
The King Center's theme for the 2025 holiday is Mission Possible: Protecting Freedom, Justice, and Democracy in the Spirit of Nonviolence365. The theme of this year’s CU Boulder convocation – Freedom Intersections – explores the present-day application of the following excerpt from Dr. King’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail:
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.
These service opportunities are framed around Dr. King's model of social change enacting the practice of nonviolence to end poverty, racism, and militarism.
Following the list of service opportunities are accompanying learning resources that aim to meet you where you are in your journey. These resources provide opportunity for self-education, share about the joy and restorative power of taking action, and provide space to reflect on how you might contribute to building a better community.
