The Metropolitan Community College Foundation presents:
2025 Chancellor’s Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship Luncheon
Friday, January 17, 2025
Union Station
11 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Henry Louis Gates Jr, 2025 Keynote Speaker
Emmy and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, and journalist Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is an acclaimed cultural critic and institution builder. Professor Gates is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University. Among his dozens of books are the recent New York Times bestsellers Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow and The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song. He has also produced and hosted an array of documentary films. The Black Church (PBS) and Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches (HBO), which he executive produced, each received Emmy nominations. His latest history series for PBS is Making Black America: Through the Grapevine. Finding Your Roots, Gates’s groundbreaking genealogy and genetics series, is now in its tenth season on PBS.
Professor Gates has received countless awards and honors, including a George Polk Award for his social commentary in The New York Times, a MacArthur Fellowship, the Chicago Tribune Literary Award for lifetime achievement, and the prestigious Gold Medal from the National Institute of Social Sciences, among many others. Gates recently (July 2024) received the coveted Spingarn Medal from the NAACP, which recognizes outstanding achievement by an African American.
Metropolitan Community College is committed to providing universal access to all of our events. Please contact Ryan Morehead, ryan.morehead@mcckc.edu 816.604.1901 to request disability accommodations. Advance notice is necessary to arrange for some accessibility needs.
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- One premier table (10 seats);
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- One premier table (10 seats)
- Five tickets to a VIP meet and greet with Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr.
- Brand presence on mcckc.edu/mlkluncheon, MCC social media and slide show
- Full-page program ad
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- One premier table (10 seats)
- Brand presence on mcckc.edu/mlkluncheon, MCC-KC social media and slide show
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- Brand presence listed on website at mcckc.edu/mlkluncheon, social media, slide show
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- One table (10 seats)
- Brand presence on mcckc.edu/mlkluncheon, MCC social media, and slide show.
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