{"id":124170,"date":"2024-12-11T08:00:17","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T13:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/?p=124170"},"modified":"2025-01-08T15:05:04","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T20:05:04","slug":"jan-20-delawares-32nd-annual-mlk-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/jan-20-delawares-32nd-annual-mlk-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Jan. 20 &#8211; Delaware&#8217;s 32nd annual MLK Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/alumnievents.owu.edu\/e\/2025-mlk-breakfast-and-speaker\/\">Get your tickets now!<\/a> Join us Jan. 20, 2025, for the 32nd annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.owu.edu\/news-media\/details\/root-to-fruit\/\">MLK Celebration<\/a>, in the Benes Rooms. Doors will open at 9:45 a.m. for the event themed \u201cGrowing Towards Justice: From Root to Fruit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The keynote speaker is Valerie Lee, Ph.D., a retired English professor at The Ohio State University and the author of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/sunypress.edu\/Books\/S\/Sisterlocking-Discoarse2\">Sisterlocking Discoarse<\/a>: Race, Gender, and the Twenty-First-Century Academy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The event also will include breakfast and a performance by the Columbus Adventist Academy Children\u2019s Choir, directed by Tamaria Kulameka.<\/p>\n<p>Individual <a href=\"https:\/\/alumnievents.owu.edu\/e\/2025-mlk-breakfast-and-speaker\/\">tickets<\/a> are $35 and event sponsorships are $260 for a table of eight. Proceeds support the Delaware County MLK Scholarship Program.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.owu.edu\/MLK\/\">www.owu.edu\/MLK<\/a>. Thank you!<\/p>\n<p>Source: The Delaware County MLK Day Committee and Chair Jason Timpson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get your tickets now! Join us Jan. 20, 2025, for the 32nd annual MLK Celebration, in the Benes Rooms. Doors will open at 9:45 a.m. for the event themed \u201cGrowing Towards Justice: From Root to Fruit.\u201d The keynote speaker is Valerie Lee, Ph.D., a retired English professor at The Ohio State University and the author [&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-124170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campuswide-news-events"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124170","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=124170"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124213,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124170\/revisions\/124213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}