{"id":2167,"date":"2025-12-18T16:04:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T21:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/mlk\/?page_id=2167"},"modified":"2026-01-19T16:45:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T21:45:03","slug":"livestream","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/mlk\/livestream\/","title":{"rendered":"Livestream"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Monday, January 19<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>4:45pm | The Rev. Dr. Benjamin Elijah Mays Debate<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/event\/5603436\/embed\/interaction\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Presented by students from Morehouse and Bates colleges, this debate honors the Rev. Dr. Benjamin Mays, a 1920 Bates graduate, prominent debater, longtime Morehouse president, pioneer of the civil rights movement, and important mentor to Martin Luther King Jr..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year\u2019s topic is \u201cResolved: This house believes that social justice movements should practice a politics of anger.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. King offered a complicated assessment of anger\u2019s place in our struggle for social change. Dr. King once cautioned in his speech titled \u201cThe Other America\u201d that \u201cangered expressions\u201d of despair could produce \u201cbitterness in the violent rebellions\u201d of civil rights activists. Yet, Dr. King also recognized anger\u2019s positive potential in his 1968 commemoration of W.E.B. Du Bois, expressing that \u201cthe supreme task is to organize and unite people so that their anger becomes a transforming force.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, January 19 Presented by students from Morehouse and Bates colleges, this&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-2167","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/mlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/mlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/mlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/mlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/mlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2167"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/mlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2228,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/mlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2167\/revisions\/2228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/mlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}