{"id":26891,"date":"2015-12-23T14:53:09","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T19:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/?p=26891"},"modified":"2015-12-23T15:10:16","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T20:10:16","slug":"jan_20_celebrate-the-legacy-of-martin-luther-king-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2015\/12\/23\/jan_20_celebrate-the-legacy-of-martin-luther-king-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"Jan. 20 Celebrate the Legacy of  Martin Luther King, Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>MLK &amp; Kazi Nazrul Islam:\u00a0The Spirit of Inclusion<\/h4>\n<p>Wednesday, Jan. 20, Noon-1 p.m.,\u00a0Hiebert Lounge<br \/>\nOpen to Medical Campus students, faculty and staff<br \/>\nRefreshments will be provided.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_26893\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26893\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2015\/12\/COM-Langley_Winston_MLK-e1450899969924.jpg\" alt=\"Winston Langley\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26893\" height=\"249\" width=\"200\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26893\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Winston Langley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Winston E. Langley<br \/>\nProvost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs<br \/>\nProfessor of Political Science and International Relations<br \/>\nUniversity of Massachusetts Boston<\/p>\n<p>Kazi Nazrul Islam is the national poet of Bangladesh. His writings explore themes such as love and freedom. He opposed all bigotry and assailed fanaticism in religion. Many of his works were devoted to the principle of human equality, vigorously assaulting religious extremism and the mistreatment of women, provoking condemnation from Muslim and Hindu fundamentalists.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Langley is the author of &#8220;Kazi Nazrul Islam: The Voice of Poetry and the Struggle for Human Wholeness.&#8221;\u00a0He is considered the first Western scholar to study Nazrul and will explore features of the poet&#8217;s thinking with that of Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/p>\n<p><em>This event\u00a0is\u00a0brought to\u00a0you\u00a0by BUSM Office\u00a0of\u00a0Diversity\u00a0and\u00a0Multicultural\u00a0Affairs\u00a0in collaboration with the BMC\u00a0Events Committee, Henry M.\u00a0Goldman\u00a0School\u00a0of Dental Medicine\u00a0Office\u00a0of\u00a0Diversity, BU School\u00a0of Public Health\u00a0and the BMC\u00a0Minority Recruitment Program.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MLK &amp; Kazi Nazrul Islam:\u00a0The Spirit of Inclusion Wednesday, Jan. 20, Noon-1 p.m.,\u00a0Hiebert Lounge Open to Medical Campus students, faculty and staff Refreshments will be provided. Winston E. Langley Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Professor of Political Science and International Relations University of Massachusetts Boston Kazi Nazrul Islam is the national poet of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,91],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26891"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26891"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26902,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26891\/revisions\/26902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}