Past MLK Convocation Speakers

2022: Michelle Alexander
2021: Ibram X. Kendi
2020: Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II
2019: Roxane Gay
2018: Anthea Butler
2017: Teju Cole
2016: Claudia Rankine
2015: Ta-Nehisi Coates
2014: Marc H. Morial
2013: Jose Antonio Vargas
2012: Sheri Parks
2011: Nell Irvin Painter
2010: Spike Lee
2009: Frank H. Wu
2008: Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.
2007: Bernice Johnson Reagon
2006: Michael Eric Dyson
2005: Patricia Williams
2004: Octavia E. Butler
2003: Ellis Close
2002: Juan Williams
2001: Bishop Gordon Bennett, S.J.
2000: Bishop Gordon Bennett, S.J.
1999: Pin Points Theater performed "The Meeting," by Jeff Stetson
1998: Staged reading of Lorraine Hansberry's "To be Young, Gifted and Black," presented by the Loyola College Evergreen Players
1996: Susan L. Taylor
1995: Pin Points Theater performed "The Meeting," by Jeff Stetson
1994: Pin Points Theater performed "The Meeting," by Jeff Stetson. Also, as part of a "Diversity Series," Dr. Michael Freeman spoke on January 20, 1994 and Diana Dunn and Rev. David Billings spoke on January 27, 1994.

Martin Luther King, Jr., Convocation