{"id":61598,"date":"2021-01-11T15:43:09","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T22:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=61598"},"modified":"2021-01-11T15:43:09","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T22:43:09","slug":"martin-luther-king-jr-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/martin-luther-king-jr-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Importance of Black Lives:\u2019 NAU honors Martin Luther King Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Northern Arizona University will honor the life and work of Martin Luther King Jr. in \u201cThe Importance of Black Lives,\u201d a virtual presentation hosted by the Office of Inclusion at 9 a.m. on Jan. 18<\/p>\n<p>The presentation will reflect on the racial injustices impacting the nation. Keynote speaker Marc Lamont Hill will speak about the importance of black lives and why they matter. Hill is an activist, professor, commentator, host and TV personality. Currently, he hosts \u201cBET News\u201d and the \u201cCoffee &amp; Books\u201d podcast.<\/p>\n<p>After the presentation, a moderated discussion will be held with Hill. Registration is required and can be found on the <a href=\"https:\/\/nau.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_9Sspm8B_RAygfNqJAhB2bQ\">MLK Day Celebration webpage<\/a> or by contacting <strong>Jessica Daniels<\/strong>, assistant director of The Office of Inclusion, at <a href=\"mailto:Jessica.Daniels@nau.edu\">Jessica.Daniels@nau.edu<\/a>. Spots are limited and will be given on a first-come-first-serve basis, with priority given to NAU students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/martin-luther-king-jr-2021\/\">Northern Arizona University will honor the life and work of Martin Luther King Jr. in \u201cThe Importance of Black Lives,\u201d a virtual presentation hosted by the Office of Inclusion at 9 a.m. on Jan. 18 The presentation will reflect on the racial injustices impacting the nation. Keynote speaker Marc Lamont Hill will speak about the&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":61600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-happenings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61598","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\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}