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The History of White People: Can A Black Scholar Write About White People? - Nell Irvin Painter
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Nell Irvin Painter is the Edwards Professor of American History, Emerita, at Princeton University and author of The History of White People. Her other recent books include Creating Black Americans and Southern History Across the Color Line. Nell Painter earned her doctorate in history from Harvard University and has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the American Antiquarian Society. She has served as president of the Organization of American Historians and the Southern Historical Association. As a public intellectual, Professor Painter is frequently called upon for lectures and interviews on television and film. Martin Luther King Jr. Legacy Series.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Legacy Convocation - A Loving Story: Perseverance, Change and Civil Rights
3:30 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Come celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and learn how his global vision of equality for everyone remains relevant today. The program will feature The Loving Story, a documentary about interracial marriage in the United States, followed by a discussion and Q&A led by Natasha Croom, Assistant Professor of Education. The Advancing One Community Awards will also be presented.

The Art of Fermentation - Sandor Ellix Katz
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Sandor Ellix Katz is a self-taught fermentation experimentalist. He is the author of Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods, which Newsweek has called "the fermenting bible." Katz demystifies the process of this preservation method and shares the history, health benefits and cultural significance of fermentation. He discusses how foods like yoghurt, kefir, kimchi and ginger beer came into existence. Katz is also the author of The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved: Inside America's Underground Food Movements.

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7:00 PM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - Environmental Imagination Series. Speaker to be announced.

Ames Community Celebration in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
6:00 PM – Ames Middle School, 3915 Mortensen Road - Celebrate with song, story and birthday cake. An Ames tradition! After sharing birthday cake, the program begins at 6:30 pm and includes a keynote address by Iowa State University Dean of Students Pamela Anthony.

Slavery by Another Name - Documentary & Discussion
7:00 PM – South Ballroom, Memorial Union - In the years following the Civil War, insidious new forms of forced labor emerged in the American South, keeping hundreds of thousands of African Americans in bondage until the onset of World War II. This documentary spans eight decades, from 1865 to 1945, uses archival photographs and dramatic re-enactments, and is filmed on location in Alabama and Georgia. Following this film, Brian Behnken, associate professor of history, will lead a discussion. Martin Luther King Jr. Legacy Series.

Let Freedom Ring - Carillon Concert
12:00 PM – Central Campus - A carillon concert in honor of Dr. King. Tin-Shi Tam, carilloneur. Part of the Martin Luther King Jr. Legacy Series.

How Local Organizing Can End Global AIDS and Malnutrition - Ken Patterson
7:00 PM – Cardinal Room, Memorial Union - Ken Patterson is Global Grassroots Manager of RESULTS, an organization that works to create long-term solutions to poverty by supporting programs that address its root causes - lack of access to medical care, education, or opportunity to move up the economic ladder. Patterson provides community organizing, advocacy, and legislative support and training to a network of seventy RESULTS chapters around the United States. With the assistance of grassroots advocates and the legislative team, he has helped change U.S. policy and funding levels to improve the lives of the world's poorest people. World AIDS Awareness Week Event

Blood Brother - Documentary Film
7:00 PM – South Ballroom, Memorial Union - Blood Brother is a documentary feature that tells the story of Rocky Braat, a disillusioned college student whose impromptu trip to India one summer dramatically changed his understanding of love and family. While traveling, Rocky met a group of orphaned children at an AIDS hostel. Unlike others who had simply passed through these children's lives, Rocky did not abandon them. Instead, he moved to India to restart his life among the dispossessed. The children became his family, and he theirs, and for five years Rocky has dedicated himself to their health and wellbeing. Blood Brother is directed by Rocky's best friend, Steve Hoover. It won the 2013 Sundance Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award. 92 minutes. World AIDS Awareness Week Event.

The Global Struggle against AIDS: The U.S. Role & Prospects for Sustainability - Mead Over
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Mead Over is a former World Bank economist whose work focuses on the economic impact of the AIDS epidemic and efficient, effective, and cost-effective health interventions in developing countries. He co-authored the World Bank's first comprehensive treatment of the economics of AIDS in the book Confronting AIDS: Public Priorities for a Global Epidemic. His most recent book, Achieving an AIDS Transition, focuses on prevention efforts. Mead Over has taught economics at Williams College and Boston University and is currently at senior fellow at the Center for Global Development. World AIDS Awareness Week Event and part of the World Affairs Series