{"id":51097,"date":"2022-01-18T07:23:37","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T12:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=51097"},"modified":"2022-11-18T11:19:44","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T16:19:44","slug":"lift-up-your-voice-emu-community-honors-mlk-with-day-of-learning-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2022\/lift-up-your-voice-emu-community-honors-mlk-with-day-of-learning-service\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Use your voice&#8217;: EMU honors MLK with day of learning, service"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Take risks, be ready to put yourself on the line when the moment calls for it, be inclusive in your vision of \u201cwe the people,\u201d and see the struggle against discrimination, racism and homophobia, against hatred of all kinds as your own. Those are some excerpts from the words of <strong>Glenn Guyton<\/strong>, executive director of Mennonite Church USA, speaking during Eastern Mennonite University\u2019s 2022 Martin Luther King Jr Day Celebration of Service and Learning.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The university celebrated King\u2019s legacy with a \u201cday on\u201d rather than a \u201cday off,\u201d <strong>President<\/strong> <strong>Susan Schultz Huxman<\/strong> noted in her campus convocation greeting. With most in-person events also offered in hybrid form because of COVID-19 and a nasty winter storm, Monday\u2019s schedule offered multiple opportunities to explore both the action and consequences of \u201clifting up\u201d one\u2019s voice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The theme, which also addresses the tragic outcomes of silence in the face of discrimination and hatred, was drawn from King\u2019s text <em>Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story<\/em> (1958) by MLK Day committee chair  and Director of Multicultural Student Services <strong>Celeste Thomas<\/strong> and members of the planning committee:&nbsp;\u201cHistory will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/emu-wordpress-multisite-instance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2022\/01\/18071624\/20220117-Anne-and-Emmett_RKH-8-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-51103\" width=\"429\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emu-wordpress-multisite-instance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2022\/01\/18071624\/20220117-Anne-and-Emmett_RKH-8-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/emu-wordpress-multisite-instance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2022\/01\/18071624\/20220117-Anne-and-Emmett_RKH-8-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/emu-wordpress-multisite-instance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2022\/01\/18071624\/20220117-Anne-and-Emmett_RKH-8-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/emu-wordpress-multisite-instance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2022\/01\/18071624\/20220117-Anne-and-Emmett_RKH-8-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/emu-wordpress-multisite-instance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2022\/01\/18071624\/20220117-Anne-and-Emmett_RKH-8-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 429px) 100vw, 429px\" \/><figcaption><strong>The talkback with producers, cast and crew of &#8220;Anne and Emmett.&#8221; <\/strong><strong>Bob Berrson,<\/strong>\u00a0Jewish Scholar in Residence at EMU\u2019s Center for Interfaith Engagement, is third from left. Director Ezrionna Prioleau speaks. (Photo by Rachel Holderman)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Listen to more of Guyton\u2019s words here: at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/EasternMennonite\/videos\/686159612761213\">Sunday community service<\/a> (beginning at 36:00), led by <strong>Reverend Kimberly Young <\/strong>of Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Harrisonburg, and again at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/271385904886762\">Monday\u2019s Celebration Convocation<\/a> (beginning at 39:15).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mayor Deanna Reed<\/strong>, who in her prominent local political office has been a very present champion during the city\u2019s recent pandemic challenges, spoke at both events. She acknowledged the longevity of this current strain, how it has bared racial and social disparities, and the weariness with which we are persevering through yet another surge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These are all reasons to be tired, to lack the energy to speak up, she said. But Proverbs 31 holds the admonition to speak up: <em>Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all who are destitute. Open your mouth, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI believe the spirit of Dr. King\u2019s movement guided many of us, especially in the last two years,\u201d she said. \u201cDr. King gives us the blueprint we need \u2013 for us NOT to sit back and be silent.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reed was among the cast of actors telling the story of Emmett Till and Anne Frank, two teenagers both murdered by acts of hatred years apart, in Janet Langhorn Cohen\u2019s play \u201cAnne and Emmett.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2022\/dn-r-emu-examines-silence-in-face-of-hatred-through-anne-emmett-featuring-mayor-reed\/\">Read more about &#8220;Anne and Emmett&#8221; in local news coverage.<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among those speaking at the convocation was <strong>Talibah Aquil,<\/strong> a graduate of and instructor with the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, who will lead an intercultural trip to Ghana this summer for students of color. She reminded listeners to remember Coretta Scott King and her suffering, and the hard work of those who surrounded King on his journey.<a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/crowdfunding\/\"> Learn more about and support the Ghana intercultural trip.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Members of the EMU community were also invited to participate in a solidarity march, join reading circles to explore King\u2019s texts, hear inspiring words from a former Black Student Union leader and current doctoral candidate, and learn about Virginia\u2019s justice system was wielded against a local Black resident with history professor <strong>Mark Sawin<\/strong>, among other scheduled activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take risks, be ready to put yourself on the line when the moment calls for it, be inclusive in your vision of \u201cwe the people,\u201d and see the struggle against <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2022\/lift-up-your-voice-emu-community-honors-mlk-with-day-of-learning-service\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"more-link\">... read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">about &#8216;Use your voice&#8217;: EMU honors MLK with day of learning, service<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4515,7931,5583,14184,13679,5861,17562,264,5623,5730],"tags":[6795],"feature":[17427,17241],"class_list":["post-51097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-arts","category-campus-community","category-campus-guests","category-center-for-interfaith-engagement","category-conferences-and-events","category-digest","category-graduate-programs","category-special-programs","category-undergraduate-programs","tag-diversity","feature-emu-home-page-feature","feature-news-feature"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - 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