Join local author Jay Bradford for a book reading and activity geared towards kids. Through storytelling, games, and hands-on activities, participants learn in a way that feels fun—not like a lecture.
Includes snacks and a Q&A for parents. Each registered family will get a Mahogany & Friends book to bring home.
Join MSS for the MLK Day of Service! This year, we will be assembling winter care packs for individuals in need, with all donated items going to The Haven for distribution. The program is open to all students, including those seeking community service hours or simply looking for an opportunity to give back. All care-pack materials will be provided, food will be available, and participants will
Give back to our community on the 2026 MLK Day of Service. This year, we are partnering with Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital to host a community kit-building project on Monday, January 19, 2026 at Jackson P. Burley Middle School from 10a.m. to 12p.m.
We will be assembling 1,000+ hygiene and winter warmth kits for those in need. Kits will then be distributed by The Haven and Salvation Army
Join the Center for Connection in Engineering for a special MLK Celebration featuring Dr. Jayla Marshall, nationally recognized speaker and higher education leader, in conversation with Alicia Cowan-Brown of the Clark Scholars Program. This fireside chat, Civil Discourse on Campus: Dialogue, Difference, and Building Brave Spaces, will explore how students and institutions can engage across
Dr. Cornel West and Dr. Robert P. George join UVA to kick off the UVA250 Presents series with a powerful conversation on civic friendship, humility, and truth-seeking, modeling how disagreement can lead to deeper understanding.
Doors will open at 4:30pm.
Sponsored by The Office of the President, UVA250, The College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, The Karsh Institute of Democracy, The Miller
More information to come soon.
Join us as we examine a central pillar of Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision on education, what it means to ascend to the 'mountaintop' of opportunity, equity, and collective uplift. Drawing on King’s final sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church, where he spoke of having 'been to the mountaintop,' this year’s program reflects on the vantage point of K-12 and higher education—its promise, its shortcomings
Dr. Imani Perry will deliver the 2026 Community MLK Celebration keynote address on January 22, 2026. This event is free and open to the public. Tickets are available via the Paramount Theater website here.
Biography: Born just nine years after the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellow Imani Perry was instilled from an early age with a strong
