Jelani Cobb to deliver Australian exclusive Martin Luther King lecture on civil rights

30 May 2019: Award-winning, New Yorker journalist and educator Jelani Cobb will deliver UNSW's Martin Luther King lecture with a special performance from the Boston Children's Chorus.

Fifty-five years after Dr Martin Luther King Jr was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in leading the US civil rights movement, award-winning American journalist and educator Jelani Cobb will visit UNSW Sydney to deliver a lecture on the ongoing struggle for equality.

Despite Martin Luther King's dream of equality, America today remains a divided country, haunted by legacy of slavery. As a long-time staff writer at The New Yorker, Dr Cobb has been one of the foremost

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