Anthea Butler, Ph.D., associate professor of religious studies and Africana studies at the University of Pennsylvania, will speak at Loyola University Maryland’s annual Martin Luther King, Jr., Convocation on Monday, Jan. 15, 2018, at 5 p.m. in McGuire Hall. Butler will give her lecture, "From Selma to Charlottesville: How to confront and defeat racism in perilous times." A brief vigil service for hope and renewal will follow the lecture.