{"id":48048,"date":"2021-01-05T13:16:56","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T18:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=48048"},"modified":"2021-01-19T08:59:19","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T13:59:19","slug":"mlk-day-celebration-to-kick-off-spring-semester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2021\/mlk-day-celebration-to-kick-off-spring-semester\/","title":{"rendered":"MLK Day Celebration to kick off spring semester"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><aside class=\"highlight highlight-right\">Watch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whsv.com\/2021\/01\/16\/1on1-emus-mlk-day-celebration-to-be-virtual\/\">WHSV News<\/a> and listen to <a href=\"https:\/\/wsvaonline.com\/podcasts\/celeste-thomas-emu-mlkjr-festivities\/\">WSVA radio<\/a> coverage. <\/aside> Eastern Mennonite University will celebrate MLK Day 2021 on Monday, January 18, with worship, speakers and discussions on the pandemic, police violence, and the Civil War, and other activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The full slate of events, including ways to Zoom access links, can be viewed <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/mlk\/\"><strong>on the MLK Jr. Celebration website.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year, the celebration marks the first day of EMU\u2019s 2021 spring semester; no classes are held in order for students to participate in the events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year&#8217;s theme, &#8220;No love without justice: no justice without truth,&#8221; is drawn from <strong>Dr. Martin Luther King Jr&#8217;s<\/strong> 1964 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech. \u201cI refuse to accept the view of mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality,&#8221; King said. &#8220;I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The celebration kicks off on Sunday, Jan. 17, with an afternoon virtual worship service hosted by Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Harrisonburg. This event is a tradition of EMU\u2019s MLK Celebration. The service will feature Glen Guyton, executive director of Mennonite Church USA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Monday\u2019s speaker is <a href=\"https:\/\/nylefort.com\/bio\"><strong>Nyle Fort<\/strong><\/a>: a minister, activist, and scholar based in Newark, N.J. Fort has worked in education, criminal justice, and youth development for over a decade, and is the co-founder and co-director of The Maroon Project (TMP), an activist incubator based in Newark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Oppression can sometimes feel so overwhelming and so all-consuming that our imaginations become so limited that we can&#8217;t even imagine a different kind of world,&#8221; he said, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jJSHRKcdQS8\">a talk with the Yale Youth Ministry Institute<\/a> in 2018. &#8220;And so I think that joy comes in a very embodied sense when folks come together collectively to fight back oppression but then to imagine something differently altogether.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After convocation on Monday, Fort will give a talk titled &#8220;The pandemic, police violence, and the possibility of transformation.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other featured speakers are <strong>Jacqueline Walker,<\/strong> emerita professor of history at James Madison University [this event has been cancelled due to illness]; <strong>Brent Lewis, <\/strong>associate vice president for diversity, equity, and inclusion at James Madison University; and <strong>Professor Mark Sawin. <\/strong>In the afternoon, there will be a screening of the 2014 movie <em>Selma<\/em> in honor of Congressman John Lewis.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Throughout the day, there will also be three opportunities to join JourneyDance sessions led by <strong>Katie Mansfield,<\/strong> director of the Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience program. JourneyDance is a virtual participatory, facilitated group dance experience. Participants can dance, move, draw, journal, or just be still and appreciate the experience \u2013 the only rule is don&#8217;t come as a spectator!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eastern Mennonite University will celebrate MLK Day 2021 on Monday, January 18, with worship, speakers and discussions on the pandemic, police violence, and the Civil War, and other activities. The <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2021\/mlk-day-celebration-to-kick-off-spring-semester\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"more-link\">... read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">about MLK Day Celebration to kick off spring semester<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266,17562,8845,5730],"tags":[11321],"feature":[17427,17241],"class_list":["post-48048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-digest","category-emu-at-lancaster","category-undergraduate-programs","tag-events","feature-emu-home-page-feature","feature-news-feature"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>MLK Day Celebration to kick off spring semester - EMU News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2021\/mlk-day-celebration-to-kick-off-spring-semester\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"MLK Day Celebration to kick off spring semester - EMU News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Eastern Mennonite University will celebrate MLK Day 2021 on Monday, January 18, with worship, speakers and discussions on the pandemic, police violence, and the Civil War, and other activities. The\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2021\/mlk-day-celebration-to-kick-off-spring-semester\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"EMU News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/EasternMennonite\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-01-05T18:16:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-01-19T13:59:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/emu-wordpress-multisite-instance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2021\/01\/07141531\/MLK-Feature-scaled.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2560\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1707\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@EMU_News\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@EMU_News\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2021\/mlk-day-celebration-to-kick-off-spring-semester\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2021\/mlk-day-celebration-to-kick-off-spring-semester\/\",\"name\":\"MLK Day Celebration to kick off spring semester - EMU News\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2021\/mlk-day-celebration-to-kick-off-spring-semester\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2021\/mlk-day-celebration-to-kick-off-spring-semester\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/emu-wordpress-multisite-instance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2021\/01\/07141531\/MLK-Feature-scaled.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-01-05T18:16:56+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-01-19T13:59:19+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/d6737034219398924e6bd5dedcfa1245\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2021\/mlk-day-celebration-to-kick-off-spring-semester\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2021\/mlk-day-celebration-to-kick-off-spring-semester\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2021\/mlk-day-celebration-to-kick-off-spring-semester\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/emu-wordpress-multisite-instance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2021\/01\/07141531\/MLK-Feature-scaled.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/emu-wordpress-multisite-instance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2021\/01\/07141531\/MLK-Feature-scaled.jpg\",\"width\":2560,\"height\":1707},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2021\/mlk-day-celebration-to-kick-off-spring-semester\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"MLK Day Celebration to kick off spring semester\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/\",\"name\":\"EMU News\",\"description\":\"News from the Eastern Mennonite University community.\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/d6737034219398924e6bd5dedcfa1245\",\"name\":\"admin\",\"sameAs\":[\"http:\/\/\"]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"MLK Day Celebration to kick off spring semester - EMU News","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2021\/mlk-day-celebration-to-kick-off-spring-semester\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"MLK Day Celebration to kick off spring semester - EMU News","og_description":"Eastern Mennonite University will celebrate MLK Day 2021 on Monday, January 18, with worship, speakers and discussions on the pandemic, police violence, and the Civil War, and other activities. The","og_url":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2021\/mlk-day-celebration-to-kick-off-spring-semester\/","og_site_name":"EMU News","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/EasternMennonite","article_published_time":"2021-01-05T18:16:56+00:00","article_modified_time":"2021-01-19T13:59:19+00:00","og_image":[{"width":2560,"height":1707,"url":"https:\/\/emu-wordpress-multisite-instance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2021\/01\/07141531\/MLK-Feature-scaled.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"admin","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@EMU_News","twitter_site":"@EMU_News","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"admin","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2021\/mlk-day-celebration-to-kick-off-spring-semester\/","url":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2021\/mlk-day-celebration-to-kick-off-spring-semester\/","name":"MLK Day Celebration to kick off spring semester - EMU News","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2021\/mlk-day-celebration-to-kick-off-spring-semester\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2021\/mlk-day-celebration-to-kick-off-spring-semester\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/emu-wordpress-multisite-instance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2021\/01\/07141531\/MLK-Feature-scaled.jpg","datePublished":"2021-01-05T18:16:56+00:00","dateModified":"2021-01-19T13:59:19+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/d6737034219398924e6bd5dedcfa1245"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2021\/mlk-day-celebration-to-kick-off-spring-semester\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2021\/mlk-day-celebration-to-kick-off-spring-semester\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2021\/mlk-day-celebration-to-kick-off-spring-semester\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/emu-wordpress-multisite-instance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2021\/01\/07141531\/MLK-Feature-scaled.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/emu-wordpress-multisite-instance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2021\/01\/07141531\/MLK-Feature-scaled.jpg","width":2560,"height":1707},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2021\/mlk-day-celebration-to-kick-off-spring-semester\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"MLK Day Celebration to kick off spring semester"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/","name":"EMU News","description":"News from the Eastern Mennonite University community.","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/d6737034219398924e6bd5dedcfa1245","name":"admin","sameAs":["http:\/\/"]}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48048"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48192,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48048\/revisions\/48192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48048"},{"taxonomy":"feature","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/feature?post=48048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}