MLK Keynote Address: Dawn Porter

Dawn Porter is an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose work has appeared on HBO, PBS, Discovery, and Netflix among others. Drawing on personal experience from working with Lewis over multiple documentaries, Porter will give us insight into his legacy and how we can embody his message of “good trouble.”

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This event is part of MLK Week.
This year’s theme is “Good Trouble,” a term often associated with former United States Representative John Lewis. As a founder and leader of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Lewis was the youngest person to speak at the March on Washington, August 28, 1963, and taught us young people must be the change they want to see by pushing and forcing older generations for equitable change. “I want to see young people in America feel the spirit of the 1960s and find a way to get in the way. To find a way to get in trouble, good trouble, necessary trouble.”

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