The Office of Black Church Studies at Duke Divinity School held the 2015 Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture featuring James H. Cone, the Charles A. Briggs Distinguished Professor of Systematic Theology at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, as the guest lecturer. Professor Cone delivered his lecture on April 1.

The annual lecture series features national and community lecturers who address the issues of justice, peace and liberation in relation to the black religious experience.