{"id":54006,"date":"2019-01-17T09:06:27","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T16:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=54006"},"modified":"2019-01-17T09:06:27","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T16:06:27","slug":"mlk-day-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/mlk-day-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"NAU hosts MLK day celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 17, 2019<\/p>\n<p>Northern Arizona University remembers the life and work of Martin Luther King Jr. with its annual day of celebration and service on Monday, Jan. 21. Though the university is officially closed for the holiday, the campus will be busy with a number of activities for Lumberjacks and the local community that honor Martin Luther King Jr.\u2019s vision of equality and unity.<\/p>\n<p>The day begins with the President&#8217;s MLK Community Breakfast featuring guest speaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unlv.edu\/people\/javon-johnson\">Javon Johnson<\/a>, UNLV professor and award-winning spoken word artist, followed by a march and community fair. Off-campus volunteer opportunities are available on Monday and throughout the month.<\/p>\n<p>The full schedule of events follows:<\/p>\n<p><strong>President\u2019s MLK Community Breakfast:<\/strong> 9-11 a.m., du Bois Ballroom<\/p>\n<p><strong>Commemorative Poster-Making:<\/strong> 11 a.m.-noon, du Bois Ballroom<\/p>\n<p><strong>Commemorative March:<\/strong> Noon-12:30 p.m., du Bois to Office of Inclusion<\/p>\n<p><strong>Community Fair:<\/strong> 12:30-3 p.m., Office of Inclusion<\/p>\n<p>MLK Day of Service opportunities:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Family Food Center:<\/strong> 9 a.m.-noon, 3805 E. Huntington Drive<\/p>\n<p><strong>Family Food Center:<\/strong> 10 a.m.-noon, 1903 N. 2<sup>nd<\/sup> St.<\/p>\n<p>MLK volunteer opportunities throughout the month:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Family Food Center<\/strong>: Saturdays 9 a.m.-1 p.m., 3805 E. Huntington Drive<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgcflag.org\/?page_id=362\">Boys &amp; Girls Club<\/a>*<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkliteracy.org\/volunteer\">The Literacy Center<\/a>*<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nazunitedway.org\/get-involved\/\">United Way of Northern Arizona<\/a>*<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hfhnaz.org\/volunteer-1\/\">Habitat for Humanity of Northern Arizona<\/a>*<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flagstaff.az.gov\/3261\/Community-Stewards-Program\">City of Flagstaff \u2013 Community Stewards Program<\/a>*<\/p>\n<p>*Requires advance sign-up or volunteer application through organization website<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/mlk-day-2019\/\">Jan. 17, 2019 Northern Arizona University remembers the life and work of Martin Luther King Jr. with its annual day of celebration and service on Monday, Jan. 21. Though the university is officially closed for the holiday, the campus will be busy with a number of activities for Lumberjacks and the local community that honor&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":46107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}