Fri 1/20 @ 12:45PM
Each year, Case Western Reserve University presents its MLK Convocation with a speaker who addresses the issues of social justice that were important to Dr. King.
This year’s speaker is Atlanta-based young adult/middle school novelist Nic Stone whose books feature mostly teens embroiled in situations of injustice and inequity. Her first book, 2017’s Dear Martin, revolved around a Black teenager at a mostly white school who starts writing letters to Dr. King following a harrowing encounter with racist police officers. It made a couple of appearances on the New York Times’ best seller list and seems destined to be a class. She’s also written a sequel called Dear Justyce, and well as Odd Girl Out, about three teens in a gender-fluid relationship (Stone herself identifies as queer.)
The program takes place in the ballroom at the Tinkham-Veale University Center. It’s free and open to the public. Registration is encouraged. Go here.
Learn more about Stone here.