Chancellor’s Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship Luncheon

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.


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Henry Louis Gates Jr, 2025 Keynote Speaker 

Henry Louis Gates Jr

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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