Enjoy a night celebrating Florida State University community members, featuring a performance by the FSU Gospel Choir, and an engaging conversation with keynote speaker Leslie Odom Jr. for FSU’s 38th Annual MLK Week.
Building Your Voice: The MLK 2026 Commemoration Program and Golden Torch Lecture will be at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 20, in Ruby Diamond Concert Hall. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
Free tickets for this event will be available at tickets.fsu.edu. Ticket availability opens at noon on Thursday, Jan. 15.
About the keynote speaker
Leslie Odom, Jr. is a Tony and Grammy Award-winning, three-time Emmy and two-time Academy Award-nominated songwriter, actor, and New York Times bestselling author.
Odom is best known for his breakout role as Aaron Burr in the Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway musical “Hamilton,” but has continued to captivate audiences across multiple platforms through six albums, two books, and an unbelievable amount of television, film, and stage roles.
Film and television credits include Rian Johnson’s record-breaking 2022 Knives Out sequel, “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery,” for Netflix, “Abbott Elementary,” “Harriet,” and “The Many Saints of Newark,” a prequel to David Chase’s award-winning HBO series ”The Sopranos.”
As well as Apple TV+’s ”Central Park” (2020 Emmy nomination), “Hamilton” on Disney+ (2021 Emmy nomination), host of “The Tony Awards Present: Broadway’s Back!” on CBS (2022 Emmy nomination), “The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder,” and many more.
This event focuses on the First Principle of Nonviolence: Nonviolence is a way of life for courageous people.
This article originally appeared on Tallahassee Democrat: ‘Hamilton’ star Leslie Odom Jr. is keynote speaker for FSU’s MLK Week
Reporting by Special to the Tallahassee Democrat, USA TODAY NETWORK – FLORIDA / Tallahassee Democrat
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