Join us for an advance screening of Genius: MLK/X, a new Nat Geo and Disney+ series inspired by LBJ School professor Dr. Peniel Joseph's book, The Sword and The Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. Genius: MLK/X follows both King and X from their formative years, where they were molded by strong fathers and traumatic injustices, to their rich, parallel stories as they shaped their identities and became the change they wished to see in the world. Influenced as children by different upbringings and experiences: King by the Jim Crow-era South and life in the church before finding his voice at Morehouse and Boston University, and X growing up under the constant, deadly violence of the Klan and falling into a life of vice and incarceration where he was introduced to the Nation of Islam and found his voice. The two visionaries ultimately rose to pioneer a movement.
Light refreshments will be served.