The Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (ODEI) is excited to kick off the 2024 year with their annual reflection and celebration of the life and legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Thursday, January 11 from 3:30 - 5:30 PM in the UAH Student Services Building, Room 112.

Each commemoration is carefully considered and centered around a quote or mantra symbolic of Dr. King’s inspirational work that simultaneously ties into the current cultural climate; this year's theme is focused on the following quote:

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

We are thrilled to welcome Birmingham native, Ms. Lisa McNair, as our guest keynote. Lisa’s older sister, Denise, was one of the four little girls killed in the infamous 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Through her memoir, Dear Denise: Letters to the Sister I Never Knew, Lisa provides readers a front row seat inside a family that endured a horrific and high-profile loss in the Civil Rights movement.

Admission is FREE to both the UAH campus as well as the Greater Huntsville community. Donations to further support the department’s efforts to meet their $25,000 endowment goal for the Dave McGlathery Trailblazer Scholarship Fund are appreciated.  This scholarship hopes to empower first-generation UAH students to build a more just society and establish their own trailblazing legacy.

For further inquiries, contact diversity@uah.edu.

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