Soledad O'Brien at the University of Iowa, January 23, 2014

Iowa City resident Dianne Dillon-Ridgley ask award-winning journalist Soledad O'Brien offers a compliment at a free lecture at the Prem Sahai Auditorium in the Medical Education and Research Facility on the medical campus of the University of Iowa on Thursday January 23, 2014. O'Brien spoke as part of the Humans Rights Week 2014 as the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr distinguished lecturer. (Justin Torner/Freelance for the Gazette)