WVU to mark MLK Day with breakfast

WVU photo The annual WVU Martin Luther King Jr. Unity Breakfast, hosted by the WVU Center for Black Culture, will be held in the Mountainlair Ballrooms from 9:30-11:30 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 18. The event is free, but tickets are required.
MORGANTOWN — The West Virginia University Martin Luther King Jr. Unity Breakfast hosted by the WVU Center for Black Culture will be Saturday, Jan. 18, from 9:30-11:30 a.m. at the Mountainlair Ballroom.s
Members of the University and Morgantown communities are invited. The event is free, but tickets must be reserved to attend.
Tiffany Dena Loftin, a union leader and community organizer, will be the keynote speaker for the 2025 WVU MLK Unity Breakfast.
As the AFA-CWA senior campaign lead, she currently oversees the campaign to unionize 28,000 Delta Airlines flight attendants and serves as the higher education lead for the Debt Collective.
Loftin also serves as the Higher Education lead for the Debt Collective, a union of borrowers who aim to abolish debt and make education, housing, and healthcare a right for all.
She previously served as the National Director for the Youth and College Division at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). She is a certified trainer and community organizer for public education, labor, and all things racial justice through civic engagement and issue campaign organizing.
She is the producer and host of the How We Get Free Podcast and a teacher in residence at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
During the Unity Breakfast, the Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship and Achievement Award will be presented, recognizing students and individuals in West Virginia for their commitment to human rights, civil rights and social justice.