MLK Keynote Memorial Lecture featuring Erika Alexander

The theme for the 39th keynote is Restless Dissatisfaction: An Urgent Call for the Pursuit of Justice and Equality. You might remember Keynote Speaker, Erika Alexander from The Cosby Show, Mama Flora’s Place, or from her iconic role as lawyer Maxine Shaw in Living Single. Not only is she a comedic and dramatic actress, she is an activist, entrepreneur, creator, producer, director and one of the country’s boldest, most daring, and powerful voices. Recognizing the power of storytelling, Erika believes that though content must be entertaining, stories have tremendous capacity to create impact and meaningful social change. As co-founder of Color Farm Media, she is on a mission to bring greater equity, inclusion, and diverse representation to both media and electoral politics.

She is also creator/writer/producer of 2022 Audible Original’s Best True Crime Series and DuPont Columbia award-nominee, Finding Tamika, and producer of the three-time Emmy-nominated documentary John Lewis: Good Trouble, winner of the NAACP Image Award for best documentary.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. stated in his speech accepting the Nobel Peace Prize 1964: “We’ve been in the mountain of war. We’ve been in the mountain of violence. We’ve been in the mountain of hatred long enough. It is necessary to move on now, but only by moving out of this mountain can we move to the promised land of justice and brotherhood and the Kingdom of God. It all boils down to the fact that we must never allow ourselves to become satisfied with unattained goals. We must always maintain a kind of divine discontent.”

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