
MLK Week 2023
Description
January 13
- The Black Law Student Association Guest Lecture Forum
- Speaker: Jonathan C. Augustine, JD, DMin
- Watch Online
- View Program
January 18
- Annual Unity Prayer Lunch
11:30 a.m., Mike and Josie Harper Center, Ahmanson Ballroom - In-person and online options available
- Speaker: Latasha Morrison
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- Be The Bridge Live (the Student/Faculty Edition)
3 p.m., - CANCELED due to inclement weather
Speaker Bios
Jonathan C. Augustine (JD, Tulane University; DMin, Duke University) is a reconciliation scholar, ordained minister and professor. He serves as senior pastor of St. Joseph AME Church in Durham, North Carolina, and as national chaplain of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. He is also a missional strategist with the Duke Center for Reconciliation and a professor at North Carolina Central University Law School. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from President Barack Obama, the National Bar Association’s 40 Lawyers Under 40 Award, and Ebony Magazine’s 30 Leaders of the Future recognition.
Latasha Morrison is an author and certified trainer in cultural intelligence and unconscious bias. She founded Be the Bridge in 2016 to encourage racial reconciliation among all ethnicities, to promote racial unity in America, and to equip others to do the same.