{"id":107874,"date":"2022-01-14T08:01:34","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T13:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/?p=107874"},"modified":"2022-01-14T08:23:55","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T13:23:55","slug":"jan-16-17-join-us-for-virtual-mlk-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/jan-16-17-join-us-for-virtual-mlk-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Jan. 16 &amp; 17 &#8211; Join Us for Virtual MLK Events!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ohio Wesleyan and the Delaware County Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Committee invite you to take part in two upcoming virtual events to remember King and celebrate his legacy.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>4 p.m. Jan. 16<\/strong> \u2013 Panel discussion of the film \u201cFUNDI: The Story of Ella Baker,\u201d focusing on the erasure of Black women in the Civil Rights Movement. According to the filmmakers, \u201cBy looking at the 1960s from the perspective of Baker, the \u2018godmother of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee,\u2019 FUNDI adds an essential understanding of the U.S. civil rights movement.\u201d The documentary will not be screened as part of this free event, but is available from many libraries or for rent online. Scheduled panelists are Karriejoi Coit, Unity Community Center; Dr. Brianna Mack, OWU; Dr. Antron Mahoney, OWU (moderator); Ruchelle Pride, Unity Community Center; and Anna duSaire, OWU student.\u00a0Reservations are required via <a href=\"https:\/\/owu.edu\/MLK\">owu.edu\/MLK<\/a>\u00a0to attend the Zoom panel discussion.<\/li>\n<li><strong>11 a.m. Jan. 17<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The 29th Annual MLK Celebration honoring the life and legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and exploring the theme \u201cWhy We Can\u2019t Wait\u201d in the journey toward justice. The program will debut on OWU&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OhioWesleyanUniversity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook page<\/a>\u00a0at 11 a.m. and be posted there and on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/OhioWesleyanU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> afterward. The event will include TED Talk-style presentations featuring Dr. Nicole Jackson of Bowling Green State University, Tamika Vinson-Reid of the Delaware African American Heritage Council, and Dr. Charles Montgomery, teaching pastor at Vineyard Columbus. For more information, visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/owu.edu\/MLK\">owu.edu\/MLK<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Contact: dei@owu.edu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ohio Wesleyan and the Delaware County Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Committee invite you to take part in two upcoming virtual events to remember King and celebrate his legacy. 4 p.m. Jan. 16 \u2013 Panel discussion of the film \u201cFUNDI: The Story of Ella Baker,\u201d focusing on the erasure of Black women in the Civil [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2057,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campuswide-news-events"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2057"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107874"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107876,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107874\/revisions\/107876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}