This Martin Luther King Jr. portrait, by South African painter Ashley Ward, is located outside the Tudor Room at the Indiana Memorial Union in Bloomington and is part of the IMU’s extensive permanent art collection.		Powell

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Poet, author and community activist Kevin Powell will be the keynote speaker for the 35th annual IUPUI Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dinner, hosted by the IUPUI Black Student Union, on Monday, Jan. 17, at the Indianapolis Marriott Downtown, 350 W. Maryland St.

Powell is author of six books, including his most recent, Who’s Gonna Take the Weight? Manhood, Race, and Power in America.

Powell emerged as a strong student activist while attending Rutgers University, where he worked with Sister Souljah on the anti-apartheid movement, conducted voter registration drives and launched a national African-American youth and student alliance. He is currently producing a series of town hall meetings called the State of Black Men Tour.

Tickets are on sale now at the IUPUI Office of Campus and Community Life. For information, call 317-274-3931.