University of Michigan

The University of Michigan hosts its 2024 symposium honoring civil rights leader Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The annual symposium’s theme calls on the community to grapple with the nature of ongoing discord around the globe and to examine how society can create a world where harmony is possible. Michelle Alexander, legal scholar, social justice advocate, columnist at The New York Times and visiting professor at Union Theological Seminary, delivers the memorial keynote lecture.

Three Washington Post journalists sit down for a conversation with University of Michigan Ford School of Public Policy Dean Celeste Watkins-Hayes to talk about gun policies in America and their reporting on "The gun that divides a nation - revered as a modern-day musket; reviled as a tool for mass killers."

Join the University of Michigan Wallace House Center for Journalists for a special evening with award-winning tech journalist Kara Swisher as part of its continuing series: “Democracy in Crisis: Views from the Press.” Swisher discusses her new memoir "The Burn Book: A Tech Love Story" with General Motors CEO Mary Barra.