Membership Events

IN PERSON In 1986, at the first big conference of King scholars, Coretta Scott King called for more women scholars the next time a conference was held on her husband's work. Nearly 40 years later, this panel will answer. Leading scholars of Martin Luther King, Coretta Scott King, and the Black freedom movement come together to see both Martin and Coretta Scott King anew. Jeanne Theoharis will discuss her new book King of the North: Martin Luther King's Life of Struggle Outside the South, which…

IN-PERSON WORKSHOP “I Saw It in a Movie Once”: Poetry, Cinema, and Rethinking Democracy Poetry’s ability to reflect and heighten awareness makes it an ideal tool to foment calls to action, promote social justice, and envision the true democracy Walt Whitman imagined in his 1871 book Democratic Vistas. In this generative workshop, participants will read and write poems that interrogate film tropes and characters to reaffirm their identities and address systemic biases that prevent this nation f…

IN-PERSON WORKSHOP “I Saw It in a Movie Once”: Poetry, Cinema, and Rethinking Democracy Poetry’s ability to reflect and heighten awareness makes it an ideal tool to foment calls to action, promote social justice, and envision the true democracy Walt Whitman imagined in his 1871 book Democratic Vistas. In this generative workshop, participants will read and write poems that interrogate film tropes and characters to reaffirm their identities and address systemic biases that prevent this nation f…

IN-PERSON WORKSHOP As part of her state-wide poetry project, Across Generations: Democratic Vistas, NY State Poet Laureate, Patricia Spears Jones, will lead a generative poetry workshop inspired by Walt Whitman and Martin Luther King Jr. The workshop will investigate the vocabulary used by generations of our nation's greatest authors in order to inspire serious conversations about social justice, environmental degradation, systemic oppression, cultural resistance, what beauty means, and how tha…