The University held its 30th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service and Symposium on Social Change in January, which included a beautification project at Laura Sims Skate House in West Philadelphia, attended by Penn Medicine research fellow Ting-Wei Ernie Liao (center left) and Penn senior Joey Wu (center right).
Other symposium events included the MLK Social Justice Lecture and Award with historian Orlando Patterson, who delivered a presentation on slavery and genocide in the US and Jamaica; and an interfaith awards commemoration with author and pundit Eddie Glaude giving a keynote address and telling an audience at Houston Hall, “Let’s choose the America that Dr. King gave his life for.”
