‘Our American compass is still true’
2025 honoree Darren Walker, former president of the Ford Foundation, delivered his keynote address titled “The American Idea at a Crossroads” on Monday, October 27.
In December 1967, as Americans grappled with social unrest over the Vietnam War and growing protests to end racial inequality, Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. said the U.S. was “at a crossroads of history.”
Nearly 60 years later, the nation faces a similar moment amid political polarization and rising inequality, Darren Walker, the 2025 honoree of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture at Harvard, told an audience gathered Monday in Memorial Church.
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