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2022 MLK Observance

December 07, 2021
Submitted By: Office of Diversity and Community Engagement
2022 Observance & Celebration Details

When: Tuesday, Feb. 8 at noon 

Where: Virtually on Zoom

Who: All members of the UHart community and external communities are invited to attend this celebration event!

Registration: Sign-up online to receive the Zoom link and additional information. 

Mark Your Calendars for UHart's 2022 Annual MLK Observance on Feb. 8

UHart will continue its annual tradition of honoring and celebrating the life and work of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. through an observance on Feb. 8: The Imperative of the Beloved Community.

The Imperative of the Beloved Community

UHart is pleased to share that Yamiche Alcindor will be our 2022 MLK keynote speaker for The Imperative of the Beloved Community event. The notion of the Beloved Community, a term coined in the twentieth century by philosopher-theologian, Josiah Royce, was popularized by Dr. King through his speeches and writings. Dr. King envisioned the Beloved Community as a society based on justice, equal opportunity, and love of one’s fellow human beings and where the structures of our community reflect and uphold racial equity. 

2022 MLK Keynote Speaker: Yamiche Alcindor

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Yamiche Alcindor is the White House correspondent for PBS NewsHour, and moves to NBC News in March of 2022 as Washington correspondent covering the Biden administration, the impact of federal policies on communities and issues at the intersection of race, culture and politics. She is also host of Washington Week, where she methodically unravels the steady stream of breaking news to help her listeners—and your audience—make sense of it all. 

Alcindor’s knack for following the story has taken her to places like Belgium for the 2018 North Atlantic Treaty Organization meeting and to Helsinki, Finland, for President Trump’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. She has also traveled to McAllen, Texas, to chronicle life on the US/Mexican border and to gauge the impact of President Trump’s family separation policy as well as to Jackson, Mississippi to write about the impact of racial inequalities and poverty in America. In 2019 she served as a moderator for the sixth Democratic primary debate.

As a MSNBC contributor, Alcindor often appears on shows like Morning Joe, Meet the Press, and Andrea Mitchell Reports. Earlier in her career, she was a national reporter for The New York Times, writing about politics and social issues, and a journalist with USA Today, writing about criminal justice and fast-breaking stories.

The daughter of Haitian immigrants who met while attending Boston College, Alcindor has written extensively on the intersection of race and politics. She has covered the impact of President Trump’s policies on the working-class, immigration, and breaking news coming out of Africa, the Middle East and Asia. She has also reported on the presidential campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders, the legacy of President Obama as well as how police killings affect communities and children. 

The recipient of the White House Correspondents’ Association Aldo Beckman Award for Overall Excellence in White House Coverage as well as the 2020 NABJ Journalist of the Year Award, Alcindor has become a steady voice in journalism. She earned a master’s degree in broadcast news and documentary filmmaking from New York University and a bachelor’s in English, Government, and African American studies from Georgetown University.   


The 2022 Annual University of Hartford MLK Observance Program is presented in collaboration with the Office of Diversity and Community Engagement, and the Alumni Board of Directors' Alumni of Color Task Force.

This program is open to the public.