{"id":71150,"date":"2014-01-21T17:35:55","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T22:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=71150"},"modified":"2024-07-03T15:01:04","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T19:01:04","slug":"slide-show-martin-luther-king-jr-observance-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2014\/01\/21\/slide-show-martin-luther-king-jr-observance-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Slideshow: 2014 Martin Luther King Jr. Day observance"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\n\t
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Assistant Men's Lacrosse Coach Bill Mason listens as a Martel School 4th-grader reads about the Civil Rights Movement during the annual MLK Day Read-In on Jan. 22. Bates faculty, staff and students participated. (Sarah Crosby\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t

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Sankofa wows its audience members, including President Clayton Spencer. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t

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Sankofa co-directors Bethel Kifle '14 and Jourdan Fanning '14 take their bows at the end of the performance. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t

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Jalen Baker '16 presents \"Letter to Daddy\" during the 2014 Sankofa production titled \"H.O.M.E. (Honoring Our Motherland Eternally).\" (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t

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Christopher Petrella '05, a doctoral candidate in African American studies at UC Berkeley, discusses the topic of his dissertation and focus of his activism, \"The Color of Corporate Corrections: Global Capital, Black Diaspora and the Rise of the Private Prison State.\" (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t

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Images from the observance at Bates: Sunday’s memorial service; the keynote address on the history of King’s “Dream” speech and a personal reminiscence from U.S. Sen. Angus King; the Benjamin Mays Debate between Bates and Morehouse; and workshops in the afternoon followed by the evening arts performance by Sankofa. Photographs by Sarah Crosby and Phyllis Graber Jensen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Images include Sunday’s memorial service, the keynote program Monday, the Benjamin Mays Debate between Bates and Morehouse, and the evening arts performance by Sankofa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":71157,"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":[8,44,11009],"tags":[5709,10580,6590],"class_list":["post-71150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bates-values","category-enewsletter","category-the-college","tag-martin-luther-king-jr-day","tag-narrative-multimedia-2","tag-office-of-intercultural-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71150","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\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71150"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79720,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71150\/revisions\/79720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}