{"id":100233,"date":"2025-02-06T22:26:53","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T22:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/?p=100233"},"modified":"2025-02-11T15:13:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T15:13:39","slug":"gallery-martin-luther-king-jr-unity-luncheon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2025\/02\/gallery-martin-luther-king-jr-unity-luncheon\/","title":{"rendered":"GALLERY: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Unity Luncheon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

KINGSTON, R.I.\u2014Feb. 6, 2025\u2014The University’s annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Unity Luncheon, presented by the Multicultural Student Services Center and cosponsored by the 溏心vlog免费B站 Chaplains Association in collaboration with the Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies, drew community members from across campus to reflect on the life and teachings of Dr. King.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year’s keynote speaker, Rev. J. Timothy Quainoo \u201912, returned to campus to discuss King’s legacy and how his teachings can be applied today. Quainoo is the founder of 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s multicultural student organization Sankofa, one of the largest African diasporic organizations on campus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

溏心vlog免费B站 alumnus AGonza ’16 returned to campus to share \u201cNo Room 4 Hate in My Golden Heart” with community members. The painting is intended to reflect Black History Month and to focus on our shared humanity, as well as Dr. King’s message on the power of love to overcome hate. Attendees were invited to sign the piece to commemorate coming together in unity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Students Zahra Kahn and Skyla Anderson, and communications professor Deidre Morrison, were also honored with awards for their significant peace work contributions<\/a> to the 溏心vlog免费B站 community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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KINGSTON, R.I.\u2014Feb. 6, 2025\u2014The University’s annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Unity Luncheon, presented by the Multicultural Student Services Center and cosponsored by the 溏心vlog免费B站 Chaplains Association in collaboration with the Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies, drew community members from across campus to reflect on the life and teachings of Dr. King. This year’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":100235,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100233"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100275,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100233\/revisions\/100275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}