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MLK Week

Dr. Bernice A. King

MLK Week to feature conversation with Bernice A. King

January 17, 2021

University closed for MLK Day

January 8, 2021

Fulfilling the Dream deadline extended to Jan. 4

November 25, 2020

With Norman Rockwell's "The Problem We All Live With" in the background, civil rights icon Ruby Bridges delivers the MLK Week address on Jan. 22 in the Willa Cather Dining Center's Red Cloud Room. More than 275 attended the event. The painting depicts Bridges as she is led by U.S. Marshals into an all-white New Orleans school.

Huskers challenged to become guardians of MLK's legacy

January 23, 2020

Anna Shavers

Shavers honored for focus on expanding diversity, inclusion

January 22, 2020

Members of the Lincoln community — including University of Nebraska–Lincoln students, faculty and staff — participated in the 25th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Youth Rally and March on Jan. 20. The event packed the Nebraska Union Ballroom before participants marched to the Nebraska State Capitol.

MLK week features civil rights icon Ruby Bridges

January 20, 2020

The windmill on East Campus, located behind the Animal Science Building, turns in the wind.

Five big Husker stories | Jan. 28 to Feb. 3

January 28, 2019

Louise Pound Hall is framed by snow covered branches following a storm on the weekend of Jan. 12-13. Learn more about how the university distributes weather-related closure announcements at http://bit.ly/2CyLSXO.

Five big Husker stories | Jan. 21-27

January 21, 2019

Christine Darden

'Hidden Figures' mathematician to speak during MLK Week

January 14, 2019

J. Kalu Osiri, associate professor of practice in management, teaches Leadership in a Global Context on Jan. 16. He will receive the Chancellor's Fulfilling the Dream Award on Jan. 17.

Osiri, Buchanan receive Fulfilling the Dream awards

January 17, 2018

Sculpture of Martin Luther King Jr. at the MLK Memorial in Washington, D.C.

MLK Week observance opens with youth rally, march

January 15, 2018

Sculpture of Martin Luther King Jr. at the MLK Memorial in Washington, D.C.

MLK Week events feature spoken word artist

January 12, 2018