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Let Freedom Ring Celebration Honors MLK’s Legacy

By Caleigh Keating January 19, 2024

Reginald L. Douglas (COL ’09), artistic director at Mosaic Theater Company in D.C., received the John Thompson Jr. Legacy of a Dream Award, given to a local figure exemplifying Thompson’s and Dr....

Teach-In Reflects on MLK’s ‘I Have a Dream’ Speech

Teach-In Reflects on MLK’s ‘I Have a Dream’ Speech

By Samantha Sinutko January 28, 2022

Georgetown students, faculty and other community members gathered at the recent Teach the Speech virtual teach-in to reflect on Martin Luther King, Jr.’s 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech. The teach-in...

Clarence Benjamin Jones, the speechwriter for Martin Luther King Jr.s I Have a Dream speech, visited Georgetown on

‘I Have a Dream’ Speechwriter Talks King’s Legacy, Racial Injustice Today

By William Zhu March 1, 2016

Former speechwriter and personal advisor to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Clarence Jones reflected on King’s legacy and his personal activism in the civil rights movement during a talk held in the Intercultural...

O’BRIEN: For MLK and Ignatius, Dreams Ignite Change

By Fr. Kevin O'Brien, S.J. August 26, 2013

Tomorrow the nation celebrates the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. About a quarter million people — including members of the Georgetown community — congregated on...

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