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2025 MLK Lecture: Hasan Kwame Jeffries
January 16 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Noted Civil Rights scholar Hasan Kwame Jeffries delivered the 2025 MLK Lecture, exploring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s visionary blueprint for justice, peace, and economic equality.
Dr. Jeffries is an associate professor of history at The Ohio State University and a leading author and scholar in the history of the Civil Rights Movement. His lecture was titled Where do we go from here? Afrofuturism and Dr. King’s Vision for America.
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A Brooklyn native, Hasan Kwame Jeffries graduated summa cum laude from Morehouse College and earned a Ph.D. in African American history from Duke University. He authored Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama’s Black Belt and edited Understanding and Teaching the Civil Rights Movement, exploring Black freedom struggles. His forthcoming book, In the Shadow of Civil Rights, examines Black life in New York City post-1977.
Hasan regularly shares his knowledge of African American history and contemporary Black politics with the public through lectures, workshops, op-eds, and radio and television interviews. He has contributed to the National Civil Rights Museum’s renovation, hosts the podcast Teaching Hard History, and consults on anti-racism programs nationwide.
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture Series is sponsored by the Center for African American Studies, the Bob Graham Center for Public Service, and the College of Liberal Arts and Science, with additional support from the Department of History, the UF Office of Student Engagement, and the Center for Arts, Migration and Entrepreneurship in the College of the Arts.