The 2023 Payton Lecture The sixth annual John A. Payton '73 Distinguished Lectureship featured Professor Anita Hill, lawyer, educator and advocate for equality and civil rights. The 2022 Payton Lecture Soledad O'Brien and Anti-Bias Perspectives in Journalism The 2021 Payton Lecture A Conversation with Rev. Dr. William Barber II The 2020 Payton Lecture A Conversation with Eric Holder: Voting Rights and Inequality in the U.S. The 2019 Payton Lecture Anna Deavere Smith and "Notes from the Field" The 2018 Payton Lecture A Conversation with Myrlie Evers-Williams '68 and the Reverend James M. Lawson, Jr. Payton Distinguished Lectureship Past Lectures