{"id":1238,"date":"2018-04-04T14:48:36","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T19:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/?p=1238"},"modified":"2018-04-04T14:50:07","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T19:50:07","slug":"50-years-after-mlks-assassination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/2018\/04\/04\/50-years-after-mlks-assassination\/","title":{"rendered":"50 years after MLK&#8217;s Assassination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today (April 4, 2018) is the 50th anniversary of the\u00a0assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. At\u00a0<span data-term=\"goog_1464474552\">4:01 PM PST\u00a0<\/span>Bay Area community members will join San Jos\u00e9 State University\u00a0in a ceremony to commemorate the moment that stunned the world.\u00a0The west coast time symbolizes the moment Dr. King was struck in the neck by an assassin\u2019s bullet on the third floor balcony at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN. Local K-12 students will join community elders and the SJSU\u00a0campus community in ringing 50 chimes in Dr. King\u2019s honor at the MLK Library on campus.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Atlantic<\/em> magazine has published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/mlk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a special issue about Dr. King<\/a>. I&#8217;m a subscriber but haven&#8217;t received my issue yet, but read one article online: William Barber II&#8217;s argument that t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2018\/02\/a-new-poor-peoples-campaign\/552503\/?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=atlantic-daily-newsletter&amp;utm_content=20180330&amp;silverid=MzEwMTU3NjU1NDYzS0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he nation\u2019s problem isn\u2019t that we don\u2019t have enough money to face what ails society, we lack the moral capacity to do so<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today (April 4, 2018) is the 50th anniversary of the\u00a0assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. At\u00a04:01 PM PST\u00a0Bay Area community members will join San Jos\u00e9 State University\u00a0in a ceremony to commemorate the moment that stunned the world.\u00a0The west coast time symbolizes the moment Dr. King was struck in the neck by an assassin\u2019s bullet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1927,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1270,3504,193],"class_list":["post-1238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-social-change","tag-social-structure","tag-stratification"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1238"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1242,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions\/1242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}