Tufts University Programs Honoring The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

MLK Day of Service – Saturday, January 21, 2019, Various Times and Locations

University Celebration – Tuesday, January 22, 2019, 4:30 pm, Breed Memorial Hall

Tufts University Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration 2019

Each year, Tufts University hosts a celebration honoring the life and work of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This year’s program begins with students sharing stories of resilience and hope that center around the quote from Dr. King’s 1964 speech at the Methodist Student Leadership Conference. After a light dinner, Tufts’ welcomes back Christina Greer, J00, and Zerlina Maxwell, A03 for a conversation on the themes of resilience and hope. Learn more about this event, and our speakers, at dev-tufts-chaplaincy.pantheonsite.io/MLK.

“All I’m saying is simply this: that all life is interrelated, and in a real sense we are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly… I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. And you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.”

–The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Methodist Student Leadership Conference Address, Delivered December 1964, Lincoln, Nebraska

Outline of the Day

4-5 p.m. – Grace Talusan and Student Stories on Hope and Resilience

5-5:30 p.m. – Light Dinner Available

5:30-7 p.m. – A Conversation with Christina Greer, J00, and Zerlina Maxwell, A03

Learn more about the event here: http://go.tufts.edu/MLK2019.

Join the Facebook event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1150878061730320/.

With thanks to the Africana Center, the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy, the Consortium of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora, Grace Talusan, the Office of the President, the Office of the Provost, the Tisch College of Civic Life, and the University Chaplaincy.

MLK Symposium Presenter Bios

Christina Greer, J00, Associate Professor of Political Science and American Studies at Fordham University

Christina Greer is an Associate Professor of Political Science and American Studies at Fordham University (Lincoln Center Campus). She is currently the 2018 Fellow for the McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research at New York University Silver School of Social Work.

Her primary research and teaching interests are racial and ethnic politics, American urban centers, presidential politics, and campaigns and elections. Her additional research interests also include transportation, mayors and public policy in urban centers. Her previous work has compared criminal activity and political responses in Boston and Baltimore as well as Baltimore and St. Louis.

Prof. Greer’s book Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream (Oxford University Press, 2013 ) investigates the increasingly ethnically diverse black populations in the US from Africa and the Caribbean and was the recipient of the WEB du Bois Best Book Award in 2014 given by the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. Professor Greer is currently writing her second manuscript and conducting research on the history of all African Americans who have run for the executive office in the U.S.

She is a member of the board of BAJI (Black Alliance for Just Immigration), The Tenement Museum in NYC, the Human Services Council, Community Change, The Riders Alliance, and serves on the Advisory Board at Tufts University. She is also an ardent supporter of FIERCE in NYC and Project South in Atlanta, GA.

She is a frequent political commentator on several media outlets, primarily MSNBC and NY1, and is often quoted in media outlets such as the NYTimes, Wall Street Journal, Newsday, and the AP. She is the producer and host of The Aftermath on Ozy.com and also writes a weekly column for The Amsterdam News, the oldest black newspaper in the U.S.

Greer received her B.A. from Tufts University and her M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University.