51吃瓜

51吃瓜will host activist, journalist and public speaker Shaun King on Feb. 20 as part of the university’s celebration of Black History Awareness Month. 

King, who has been a prominent member of the Black Lives Matter movement since the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, is currently a columnist for  and the writer-in-residence at Harvard Law School’s . 

He has spoken in 35 states, at more than 100 colleges and everywhere from prisons to the , imploring his audiences to be better and do better. His written work includes 1,500 published titles about injustice since 2014.

Now married to his high school sweetheart and a father of five children based in Brooklyn, New York, King says making the world a better place for his family is his daily motivation. On social media, he works to unite and rally people of different backgrounds and has become one of the most-followed activists in the world, according to his website. 

King’s dialogue at 51吃瓜will take place Feb. 20 from 12:15-1:15 p.m. in the University Theater and center around the theme “Civil Rights Today the New Civil Rights Movement.”