{"id":11667,"date":"2017-01-12T12:42:14","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T18:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/?p=11667"},"modified":"2017-01-18T15:44:48","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T21:44:48","slug":"mitchell-hamline-marks-martin-luther-king-jr-day-black-history-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/2017\/01\/12\/mitchell-hamline-marks-martin-luther-king-jr-day-black-history-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitchell Hamline marks Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Black History Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of students from Mitchell Hamline&#8217;s Black Law Students Association will attend the 27th annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlkbreakfast.com\/Breakfast.aspx\">Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Breakfast<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0Monday, Jan. 16,\u00a0at the Minneapolis Convention Center.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s keynote speaker is Myrlie Evers-Williams, a journalist and civil rights activist. Evers-Williams&#8217; husband was civil rights leader Medgar Evers, who was assassinated in 1963. Twin Cites Public Television will air the community celebration live starting at 8 am on the TPT2 channel and will\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tpt.org\/martin-luther-king-day-breakfast-minnesota\/\">stream it on the TPT site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At 7 pm on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Mitchell Hamline President and Dean Mark Gordon will speak at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/calvarychurchmpls.org\/\">Calvary Baptist Church<\/a>\u00a0in Minneapolis. Gordon will address how Americans can be true to King&#8217;s ideals, in spite of the challenges that face the nation.<\/p>\n<p>In February, Mitchell Hamline will mark Black History month with weekly events sponsored by the Black Law Students Association.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"default\">\n<li>Friday, Feb 3 &#8211; Showing of the movie &#8216;Selma&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Thursday, Feb. 9 &#8211; Student game night in the Mitchell Hamline Conservatory<\/li>\n<li>Thursday, Feb. 16 &#8211; Minnesota Association of Black Lawyers and Black Law Students Association panel<\/li>\n<li>Friday, Feb. 24 &#8211; Banquet featuring Dr. Artika Tyner, University of St. Thomas associate vice president for diversity and inclusion<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of students from Mitchell Hamline&#8217;s Black Law Students Association will attend the 27th annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Breakfast\u00a0on\u00a0Monday, Jan. 16,\u00a0at the Minneapolis Convention Center. This year\u2019s keynote speaker is Myrlie Evers-Williams, a journalist and civil rights activist. Evers-Williams&#8217; husband was civil rights leader Medgar Evers, who was assassinated in 1963. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/2017\/01\/12\/mitchell-hamline-marks-martin-luther-king-jr-day-black-history-month\/\" class=\"more-link\">Mitchell Hamline marks Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Black History Month<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4909,"featured_media":11673,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11667","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4909"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}