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Rare Martin Luther King, Jr. recording unearthed in University Archives—Listen online

In honor of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday, Pepperdine University Libraries is pleased to make available this rare audio recording of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking in Los Angeles on the moral imperative of civil rights in 1964. Recently digitized, the complete recording is now available for online listening in our Historic [...]

Borders of Faith: Interfaith Dialogue

Two were Los Angeles natives, representing different generations:  Rabbi Don Singer grew up on the West Side, attending grammar school during World War II.  Imam Suhail Hasan Mulla was a Valley guy, a surfer, who drove past Pepperdine hundreds of times, but had not set foot on campus until Wednesday, March 21. The other two [...]

Do the Thing Before You: Ambassador Tony Hall at “Borders of Faith”

Posted on behalf of Ken LaZebnik. I sat around a table in the Payson Library’s Surfboard Room with Tony Hall and some participants of the “Borders of Faith” symposium.  Tony leaned back, and with a look of genuine longing in his eyes, said, “If just one American president made ending hunger in America his – [...]

“Borders of Faith” Opens Today: How It All Began

Posted on behalf of Ken LaZebnik. My son is a cadet at West Point.  I can assure you he is the only student there who is the child of a screenwriter and an actress.  This odd bit of personal history informs the origins of the “Borders of Faith” symposium, which opens today with a keynote [...]