Photo: Dr. Walter Earl Fluker, an older Black man with white-grey hair and wearing a black suit and large medala round his neck, looks down as he stands and speaks at a podium. Sign on podium and backdrop behind him both read "Four Freedoms Awards".
September 28, 2023
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Professor Emeritus Walter Fluker Receives 2023 Freedom of Worship Award

Rev. Walter Earl Fluker (GRS’88), BU’s Martin Luther King, Jr., Professor Emeritus of Ethical Leadership, was the recipient of the Roosevelt Institute’s 2023 Freedom of Worship Award, bestowed on September 23. The Four Freedoms Awards are given to those who exemplify core freedoms that uphold democracy. Fluker was honored for carrying on the legacies of Martin Luther King, Jr. (GRS’55, Hon.’59) and Howard Thurman (Hon.’67), from helping students navigate the ethical questions of today to being a thought leader for Black churches. Photo courtesy of Evan Frazier