{"id":60649,"date":"2012-12-19T09:10:13","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T14:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?page_id=60649"},"modified":"2026-01-12T10:21:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T15:21:56","slug":"mlk13-sankofa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2012\/12\/19\/mlk13-sankofa\/","title":{"rendered":"Sankofa offers &#8216;A Rose by Any Other Name&#8217; for King Day 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_60579\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/12\/Sankofa2012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60579\" class=\"size-large wp-image-60579\" title=\"Sankofa2012\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/12\/Sankofa2012-600x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/12\/Sankofa2012-600x413.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/12\/Sankofa2012-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/12\/Sankofa2012.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-60579\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 2012 Sankofa performance at Bates. Photograph by Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Focusing this year on differences involving sexuality,<em> A Rose by Any Other Name<\/em>\u00a0 is the 2013 King Day performance by the Bates student group Sankofa, taking place at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 21, in Schaeffer Theatre, 305 College St.<\/p>\n<p>Admission is free, but tickets are required because of limited seating. Please <a href=\"http:\/\/sankofa2013.eventbrite.com\/\">reserve your ticket online here<\/a> or call 207-786-6400.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p><em>Alex Bolden \u201915 of Cleveland, Ohio, has prepared Bates artists for the Sankofa performance on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/55271764\">See a Bates Communications Office video by Phyllis Graber Jensen<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p>Founded in 2010, Sankofa explores African diasporic experiences through performing arts of dance, music, theater and spoken word. The group has become a symbol of African American pride and accomplishment at Bates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat the great civil rights organizer Ella Baker said about young people is especially applicable to Sankofa,\u201d says Charles Nero, chair of the college\u2019s King Day committee and a professor of rhetoric and American cultural studies. \u201cThey have the courage where we fail.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sankofa\u2019s founding principle is the exploration and validation of the differences among peoples of African descent. And if you think about that, this is everyone, since Africa is the birthplace of humankind.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Focusing this year on differences involving sexuality, A Rose by Any Other&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":60579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":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":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60649"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76724,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60649\/revisions\/76724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}