NSU Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Observance and March to be Held Jan. 19

Norfolk, Va.—Norfolk State University will hold a Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Observance Friday, Jan. 19. 

The observance will begin with a symbolic march at 10:30 a.m., starting at the Lyman Beecher Brooks Library.    At 11 a.m., the campus community will gather at the L. Douglas Wilder Performing Arts Center for the annual Martin Luther King, Jr. program. 

Joyce Ladner, senior fellow in governmental studies at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., will deliver the keynote address “Striving Toward Freedom in the Twenty-First Century.”

Ladner’s areas of expertise include child welfare, disadvantaged women and children, deviant behavior and social control, governance of public institutions, race and ethnic relations; and social welfare policy and urban leadership in the nonprofit sector. She is currently working on an analysis of effective urban, non-profit leaders who work in indigent areas and investigating how to increase civic engagement among young people.

She is also a prolific writer who has published seven books and numerous articles including, Mixed Families: Adopting Across Racial Boundaries, Tomorrow’s Tomorrow: The Black Woman and The New Urban Leadership.

Ladner earned a bachelor’s degree in education from Tougaloo College in 1964, and a doctor of philosophy from Washington University in St. Louis.
  
    
  

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