A political contributor to CNN and MSNBC will be speaking at Ferris State University as part of the University's 2017 Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration.

The keynote presentation by Bakari Sellers will take place at 7:00 pm this Wednesday at the FSU University Center. The event is free and open to the public.

Sellers says he considers himself a child of the civil rights movement and at age 22, became the youngest African American elected official in the nation, when he defeated a 13-term incumbent in the South Carolina House of Representatives.

Sellers also says the timing of his visit, and Ferris’ MLK celebration, is particularly significant, as this Friday, a new administration begins in the White House, with the inauguration of Donald Trump