Monday, January 20 | 6-7:30 p.m.
Lawrence Memorial Chapel
Lawrence University is excited to host the 34th Fox Cities Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration.
Hear from:
- Keynote Speaker Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly
With musical performances from:
- NOIR | Lawrence University student group
- Preston Parker ft. The Omoladé Academy
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Community Choir
- Community members are invited to join this choir! The choir will meet through Zoom once in December and will begin in-person rehearsals in January.
Also featuring the presentation of Jane LaChapelle McCarty Unity in Diversity MLK Community Leader and MLK Educator awards:
- The MLK Committee is accepting nominations for these awards. More information can be found on this form.
- The deadline to submit nominations is Sunday, Dec. 20.
Thank you to our sponsors!
- People of Progression
- Appleton Area School District
- United Way Fox Cities
- Boys & Girls Club of the Fox Valley
- City of Appleton
- The Boldt Company
- ThedaCare
About Dr. Burden-Stelly
Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly is a critical Black Studies scholar of political theory, political economy, intellectual history, and political and historical sociology. Her research pursues three complementary lines of inquiry:
- The transnational entanglements of U.S. capitalist racism, anticommunism, and antiblack racial oppression.
- Twentieth-century Black anticapitalist intellectual thought, theory, and praxis.
- Theories and discourses of economic development in the African diaspora.
Dr. Burden-Stelly is the author of Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States and the co-author, with Dr. Gerald Horne, of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History. She is also the co-editor, with Dr. Jodi Dean, of Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women’s Political Writings and of Reproducing Domination: On the Caribbean and the Postcolonial State with Dr. Aaron Kamugisha and Dr. Percy Hintzen. Additionally, she guest edited the “Claudia Jones: Foremother of World Revolution” special issue of The Journal of Intersectionality.
Her published work appears in journals including Small Axe, Monthly Review, Souls, Du Bois Review, Socialism & Democracy, International Journal of Africana Studies, CLR James Journal, and American Communist History. Dr. Burden-Stelly’s words are featured in popular venues including Monthly Review, Boston Review, Essence magazine, Teen Vogue, Jacobin, The Nation, and Black Agenda Report. She has been interviewed on podcasts, radio shows, and news shows including The Real News Network, Breakthrough News, Black Myths, Millennials Are Killing Capitalism, The Red Nation, AJ+, Bad Faith, The Katie Halper Show, Revolutionary Left Radio, Guerilla History, Upstream and the New Books Network.
Dr. Burden-Stelly is a member of the Black Alliance for Peace and Community Movement Builders.