For this year’s Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. celebration beginning Jan. 16, “Just Living: Celebrating the African Diaspora,” Willamette University students listened to spoken word artist Sterling Cunio, sampled delicious food from a cooking class led by Bryant Terry, co-author of “Black Food: Stories, Art and Recipes from Across the African Diaspora,” and attended a book discussion with him in Cone Chapel.
Terry’s talk, “Food Justice: At the Intersection of Food, Politics, Poverty, Public Health and the Environment,” was the MLK Commemoration lecture, an Atkinson Lecture Series event.
Check out the photos from these events and “Into the Streets,” Willamette’s annual volunteer event that took place Jan. 20 in Salem.
Events were hosted or co-hosted by the MLK Book Club, the Black Student Union, Bon Appetit and the Willamette food services team, and organized by the MLK Celebration Committee.
