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Upcoming:
October 18, 2024
October 30, 2024
March 11, 2025
May 19, 2025
Notre Dame University, Sociology Colloquium Series
Columbia University
Williams College, Oakley Colloquium
University of California, Santa Barbara, Distinguished Speaker Series
Speaker Reel
Hajar Yazdiha Speaker Reel
Reclaiming the Legacies of the Civil Rights Movement #ThePeoplesKing
2023 LA Book Festival
Roundtable | Why Does 1963 Matter Today?
Hajar Yazdiha, In Conversation With Gina Clayton-johnson, Discusses The Struggle For The People’s King | Vroman's Bookstore
Interview With an Author: Hajar Yazdiha | Los Angeles Public Library
Hajar Yazdiha in person at Back Cove Books | Back Cove Books
Book Talk & Signing w/ Hajar Yazdiha & Amber Payne | Frugal Bookstore
Select Op-Eds and Essays
The Problem With Comparing Today’s Activists to Martin Luther King Jr. [Op-Ed]
Time Magazine | January 15, 2024
60 years after the March on Washington, MLK's dream has become a nightmare {Op-Ed]
The Hill | August 28, 2023
Martin Luther King Jr.’s moral stance against the Vietnam War offers lessons on how to fight for peace in the Middle East. [Op-Ed]
The Conversation | January 10, 2024
This 4th of July, let’s reflect on the dangerous politics of revisionist history {Op-Ed]
The Grio | July 4, 2023
Immigrant communities are indebted to the civil rights movement. [Op-Ed]
Los Angeles Times | August 28, 2023
How the distortion of Martin Luther King Jr.’s words enables more, not less, racial division within American society {Op-Ed]
The Conversation | January 12, 2023
Select Interviews and Features
Everyone from the Tea Party to immigrants rights groups want a piece of Dr. King
NPR Code Switch |
January 10, 2024
Reclaiming the Legacy of Dr. King w/Hajar Yazdiha
Greenhouse Gaslighting Podcast
January 15, 2024
Hajar Yazdiha on the politics of togetherness and imagining collective futures
Mind Full of Everything |
March 15, 2024
How We Can Fix the Culture Gap and Reclaim Dr. King's Powerful Message
The Living Numbers Podcast | October 24, 2023
Collective Memory and Civil Rights: A Dialogue with Hajar Yazdiha
Converging Dialogues | September 14, 2023
The Struggle For The People’s King featuring Hajar Yazdiha
A Moment with Erik Fleming | August 28, 2023
Hajar Yazdiha on
The Struggle for the People's King
The Sociology Annex |
February 19, 2024
How distorted memories of the Civil Rights Movement fuel today’s divisions
Outrage Overload |
January 15, 2024
