Dear Clarkson Community,
We hope you will join us in celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King’s civil rights legacy today and in the coming week.
Please stop by the Student Center and enjoy the speeches of King and other civil rights leaders on the Forum screen in Potsdam.Enjoy the trivia quiz on the digital signage at the CRC.
There will be several events this week that honor civil rights, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
- STEM LEAF ADVANCE Grant events 1/21 and 1/22 with Tanya Odom, global consultant, writer, coach, and diversity, equity, and inclusion and civil rights thought leader. 1/22 Zoomed to all campuses.
- Walsh Series Lecture 1/24 with Dr. Randal Maurice Jelks, “Faith and Struggle in the Lives of Four African Americans: Ethel Waters, Mary Lou Williams, Eldridge Cleaver, and Muhammad Ali” followed by a reception [Potsdam] with Book Signing. Lecture in Snell 212 from 12-1pm; Meet & Greet and Book Signing in Snell Peterson Boardroom from 1-2pm.
- Join OSL for MLK Day of Service 1/25.
And we will continue our efforts to build a Wall of Intentions in the student center. You can write your own short reflections of ways we can support our global community on a Wall of Intentions. Cards can be found in the Diversity and Inclusion Lounge or you can send your intentions to Diversity@clarkson.edu and we will put them on a card and post it.
“Courage is the inner determination to go on in spite of obstacles and frightening situations; cowardice is the submissive surrender to the forces of circumstance…Courage faces fear and thereby masters it; cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it. So we must constantly build dykes of courage to ward off the flood of fear.” MLK,
Draft of Chapter XIV, “The Mastery of Fear or Antidotes for Fear”ca 1963.
