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This program will convene on the 50th anniversary of Dr. King’s Riverside Church speech. The discussion will analyze the continuing impact of MLK’s peace advocacy and its contemporary resonance.

Dr. James K. Glabraith holds the Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations and a professorship of government at the LBJ School of Public Affairs. He holds degrees from Harvard University and Yale University. Dr. Galbraith studied as a Marshall scholar at King’s College, Cambridge in 1974-1975 and then served in several positions on the staff of the U.S. Congress. He directs the University of Texas Inequality Project, an informal research group based at the LBJ School.

Dr. Peniel E. Joseph is the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy’s Founding Director, the Barbara Jordan Chair in Ethics and Political Values at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, and he holds a joint professorship appointment at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and the History Department in the College of Liberal Arts at The University of Texas at Austin. Prior to joining the UT faculty, Dr. Joseph was a professor at Tufts University, where he founded the school’s Center for the Study of Race and Democracy to promote engaged research and scholarship focused on the ways issues of race and democracy affect people’s lives.