Soledad O’Brien, host of CNN’s “In America,” drew students and community members to Graham Chapel Tuesday evening for her address entitled “State of Race: On TV, Behind the Scenes and in Our Lives.” O’Brien’s speech was the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Lecture, which is sponsored by the Association of Black Students (ABS).

Student Union Treasury approved the Association of Black Students’ (ABS) appeal to bring CNN news anchor Soledad O’Brien to Washington University as part of the Assembly Speaker Series to headline their Martin Luther King, Jr. Symposium Week in the beginning of April. Her speech and the following question and answer session will take place in Graham Chapel on April 5.

In spite of President Obama’s calls for bipartisan health care reform, only one Republican congressman—Rep. Anh Cao of Louisiana—voted for the House’s sweeping health care overhaul bill on Saturday.

The Association of Black Students, Connect4 and the Senior Class Council are hosting a town hall-style forum tonight to address students’ reactions to the alleged discrimination that took place at the Original Mothers Bar during the senior class trip to Chicago two weeks ago.