Tufts University invites the community to its annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. celebration, titled “Single Garment of Destiny.” The  theme comes from King’s 1963 “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” which includes this quote: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial ‘outside agitator’ idea.”

Keynote speaker will be Boston native Christian Walkes, a Ph.D. student at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education researching race and inequality in American schools through interdisciplinary historical inquiry. Walkes will offer insights from King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” and frame the conversation for the evening. Student artists and musicians as well as the winners of the MLK Student Voices Award also will be featured.

This event is free and open to the public; register using the link on the Tufts Chaplaincy website.

Also, at 11 a.m. on January 31, Tufts community members will perform a live-reading of “Letter from Birmingham Jail” in the Joyce Cummings Center lobby and the Tisch patio.