Professor Emeritus John Yelding is the best person for helping us recall the legacy of Martin Luther King, and for engaging us in an interactive exercise of what it means to actively invest ourselves into making King’s Legacy a reality in our time.
Alfredo M. Gonzales
Associate Provost Emeritus
and Emeritus Dean for International and Multicultural Education
The 2024 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Civil Rights Lecture at Hope College included national as well as local perspective in this keynote speech. Hope Professor Emeritus John Yelding, a specialist in diversity in education who continues to be active at the college as a professor and mentor, presented “Reflections on MLK, Civil Rights, and DEI at Hope College” on Monday, Jan. 15 in Dimnent Memorial Chapel. The lecture recording starts at 10:25 in the video.
