Anthony Jack to present MLK/Common Reading keynote

The MLK and Common Reading Programs invite you to attend the keynote presentation by Harvard scholar Anthony Jack who will present “The Privileged Poor: How Colleges are Failing Disadvantaged Students” at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, February 9.  Jack’s 2019 book on this topic was described by the Washington Post as breaking “new ground on social and educational questions of great import.”

This talk is the second of three keynote events that are collaborative efforts by the MLK and Common Reading programs to highlight issues raised by Trevor Noah’s Born a Crime. The third keynote will be given by Ijeoma Oluo on March 29.

Register for the Anthony Jack talk at https://wsu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aSQVvGbKQ-GCxnXssVIWVA.

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