CREDE - Center for Race, Ethnicity & Diversity Education

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was remembered at an annual program this week as a civil rights leader who encouraged people to believe in their own abilities and, according to an acclaimed key note speaker, helped change the hearts and minds of many Americans.

An eighth grade student at Burlington Christian Academy has been named the winner of Elon University’s 2008 Martin Luther King Jr. Humanitarian Essay Contest.

Learn more about various African traditions and social issues after Thanksgiving break when two classes of Periclean Scholars host “Footprints of Africa,” a five-day series of events aimed at making Elon University students more informed global citizens.

Academic achievement awards highlighted Elon's Phillips-Perry Black Excellence Awards Banquet, held Saturday, April 28. The banquet was recently named in honor of Elon's first black student, Glenda Phillips, and the first black graduate, Eugene Perry. Details...

Kevin Powell, an activist and journalist who speaks out for racial equality, delivered Elon’s annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative address Wednesday, Jan. 10 in Whitley Auditorium on campus. Details...

A local middle school student is the winner of the Martin Luther King Jr. Humanitarian Essay Contest, sponsored by the Elon University Multicultural Center. Details...