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It’s been 53 years since the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated and the societal change he fought and prayed for seems as much a dream now as it did in 1969. But as his birthday is commemorated this Monday, the countless individuals who have continued his legacy haven’t given up his fight – people like Dr. Neal Lester of Ahwatukee.
ASU awards special MLK honor to local professor
An influential professor at Arizona State University since 1997, Neal Lester has been selected as the 2022 ASU Martin Luther King Jr. Faculty Servant-Leadership awardee, as a part of the university's annual MLK Jr. celebration. 
Founding director of Project Humanities honored with 2022 ASU MLK Jr. Faculty Servant-Leadership Award
Ahwatukee university professor Dr. Neal Lester has spent 2021 partly in celebration of the 10-year anniversary of Project Humanities, a program of which he is the founding director at Arizona State University.
Accolades are long for Ahwatukee prof's unique program
Over the past 10 years, Arizona State University’s Project Humanities has received high praise from many dignitaries around the world. They include a Humanity 101 commendation from the Dalai Lama; an endorsement from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison; and a big thumbs up from Valley resident and former NFL quarterback Kurt Warner.
Celebrating the past 10 years of Project Humanities at ASU
“Hacks for Humanity” is an annual event that brings people together to come up with interventions to a variety of social problems. This year’s focus is healthcare and water issues, along with concerns in sports. ASU Foundation Professor Dr. Neal Lester is the founding director of “Hacks for humanity.”
An annual event, “Hacks for Humanity” will focus on ways to intervene social issues with technology
ASU faculty reflect on the origins, meaning and implications of critical race theory amid state legislative attempts across the nation to ban it.
ASU academics work to dispel critical race theory myths
Despite flurry of bills banning it, the academic concept is not taught to kids.
ASU Project Humanities event dispels myths about critical race theory
Cultural appropriation a term that you've probably been hearing more recently. As influencers wear accessories to music festivals, as your friends go to parties in costumes, and as celebrities post videos of themselves talking in accents, they might be called out for cultural appropriation. 
What Is Cultural Appropriation? Here's Why the Practice Is So Harmful—and How You Can Avoid Doing It
