Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, January 19th, will be a busy day for the IC community.

The start of classes will be delayed a day, so that students can participate in the many events happening on campus and around town.

This year's MLK Day theme on campus is "One World, One House," and there will be many activities centered on diversity and learning in a global...

Sitting inside the Center for Cross Cultural Learning in Rabat, Morocco, Ithaca’s Martin Luther King Jr. scholars were immersed in a new, exciting, and radically different culture. During this service-learning trip, we carried ourselves as the global citizens and agents for social change that we strive to be as MLK scholars.

Yet at times culture shock set in, and we were forced...

This January, I’ll be taking my last international service-learning trip with the MLK Scholars Program. We will be traveling to Costa Rica to explore issues of environmental justice, race, economics, and the intersection of all three issues.

Our trip will begin in San Jose, where we will attend lectures at the Universidad de Costa Rica on subjects such as the nation’s...

With a walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, the Martin Luther King Jr. scholars relived the march of their ancestors.

More than 40 years earlier, on March 7, 1965, voting rights marchers were violently confronted by law enforcement officers on a day that became known as Bloody Sunday. The law enforcement personnel ...