Ijeoma Oluo to give annual MLK Lecture

Seattle-based writer Ijeoma Oluo will give the 2021 Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Lecture at Cornell, in a virtual forum on March 1 at 7 p.m.Instead of a lecture, this year’s event will be a conversation between Oluo and Edward Baptist, professor of history in the College of Arts and Sciences and author of “The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism” (2014). A Q&A will follow.

To learn more about Ijeoma Oluo and her best-selling book So You Want to Talk about Race, please visit this library guide compiled by the John Henrik Clarke Africana Library and the Tompkins County Public Library.

The conversation will be livestreamed and is free, open to the public and accessible; register here.Read the full story in the Cornell Chronicle.