Today, as it has every year since 2001, the George Washington University commemorates the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. through service to the community. Teams of students, faculty and staff will head out to eleven service project sites across the District of Columbia.
We began this academic year with a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, during which Dr. King gave his most famous address just a few blocks from our Foggy Bottom Campus. That celebration included a concert, a photography exhibit, panel discussions and a community dialogue about the March.
Six years before the March, on August 11, 1957, Dr. King said, “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: ‘What are you doing for others?’” I am grateful to all the members of our university community who answer his call to serve, both today and throughout the year.