{"id":2279,"date":"2024-12-04T12:30:55","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T17:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/?p=2279"},"modified":"2024-12-04T12:30:55","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T17:30:55","slug":"2025-melvin-van-peebles-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/2025-melvin-van-peebles-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 Melvin Van Peebles Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parents and families are welcome to attend Ohio Wesleyan University&#8217;s 2025 Melvin Van Peebles Symposium from March 28 to 30, 2025. The event&#8217;s keynote speaker, Ericka Alexander, is an accomplished actress, trailblazing activist, entrepreneur, creator, producer, and director\u00a0and one of the country&#8217;s boldest, most daring, and powerful voices on race, gender equity, and leadership.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"block_right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"not_aligned\" src=\"https:\/\/www.owu.edu\/files\/resources\/medium-erika-alexander-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" \/><figcaption>Erika Alexander<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Erika Alexander \u2013 known for roles including Maxine Shaw on TV&#8217;s &#8220;Living Single,&#8221; Detective Latoya on &#8220;Get Out,&#8221; and Cousin Pam on &#8220;The Cosby Show&#8221; \u2013 will speak during a moderated discussion March 29 at the university&#8217;s second biennial\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/owu.edu\/VanPeebles\">Van Peebles Symposium<\/a>, named in memory of the 1953 OWU graduate and groundbreaking Black filmmaker. The symposium, held on Ohio Wesleyan&#8217;s Delaware campus, will explore the theme of &#8220;Disruption!! Signal Fires, Reckoning, and Jubilee Through Black Art.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parents and families are welcome to attend Ohio Wesleyan University&#8217;s 2025 Melvin Van Peebles Symposium from March 28 to 30, 2025. The event&#8217;s keynote speaker, Ericka Alexander, is an accomplished actress, trailblazing activist, entrepreneur, creator, producer, and director\u00a0and one of the country&#8217;s boldest, most daring, and powerful voices on race, gender equity, and leadership. Erika [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2100,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[498,499,61,14,497],"class_list":["post-2279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parent-family-engagement","tag-awareness","tag-black-art","tag-diversity","tag-event","tag-melvin-van-peebles-symposium"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2280,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279\/revisions\/2280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}