Past MLK Convocation Speakers
- 2025: Nikole Hannah-Jones
- 2024: Dr. Freeman Hraboski III
- 2023: Bryan Massingale
- 2022: Michelle Alexander
- 2021: Ibram X. Kendi
- 2020: Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II
- 2019: Roxane Gay
- 2018: Anthea Butler
- 2017: Teju Cole
- 2016: Claudia Rankine
- 2015: Ta-Nehisi Coates
- 2014: Marc H. Morial
- 2013: Jose Antonio Vargas
- 2012: Sheri Parks
- 2011: Nell Irvin Painter
- 2010: Spike Lee
- 2009: Frank H. Wu
- 2008: Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.
- 2007: Bernice Johnson Reagon
- 2006: Michael Eric Dyson
- 2005: Patricia Williams
- 2004: Octavia E. Butler
- 2003: Ellis Close
- 2002: Juan Williams
- 2001: Bishop Gordon Bennett, S.J.
- 2000: Bishop Gordon Bennett, S.J.
- 1999: Pin Points Theater performed "The Meeting," by Jeff Stetson
- 1998: Staged reading of Lorraine Hansberry's "To be Young, Gifted and Black," presented by the Loyola College Evergreen Players
- 1996: Susan L. Taylor
- 1995: Pin Points Theater performed "The Meeting," by Jeff Stetson
- 1994: Pin Points Theater performed "The Meeting," by Jeff Stetson. Also, as part of a "Diversity Series," Dr. Michael Freeman spoke on January 20, 1994 and Diana Dunn and Rev. David Billings spoke on January 27, 1994.