{"id":82423,"date":"2019-01-21T08:30:42","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T14:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=82423"},"modified":"2019-01-25T16:52:13","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T22:52:13","slug":"fireside-chat-january-21-2019-martin-luther-king-jr-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2019\/01\/fireside-chat-january-21-2019-martin-luther-king-jr-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Fireside Chat &#8211; January 21, 2019 &#8211; Martin Luther King, Jr. Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joining President LaForge is Dr. Temika Simmons, co-chair of the Winning the Race committee and program director for the Local Government Leadership Institute.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e4ms9XWLBYg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Martin Luther King, Jr.\u2019s famous &#8220;I Have a Dream&#8221; speech and the March on Washington were key moments in the American Civil Rights Movement for African-Americans. It brought to the forefront societal concerns about voting, housing, employment, racial inequality, and education. <!--more-->Here is a look back on how numbers for African-Americans have changed for the better just in higher education, according to the Census Bureau.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In 1964, African-Americans accounted for 234,000 college undergraduates. In 2012, there were 2.6 million, more than 10 times as many as there were in 1964.<\/li>\n<li>There were only 3.9 percent of African-Americans age 25 and older who completed at least four years of college in 1964. That percentage rose to 21.2 percent in 2012.<\/li>\n<li>365,000 African-Americans had at least a bachelor\u2019s degree in 1964. In 2012, the number was 14 times that &#8212; 5.1 million.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In other news on campus, guest speaker Bridget Arend will present \u201cSeven Ways of Learning\u201d on Wednesday, January 23 from 12 to 1 p.m. in the Baioni Conference Center. In athletics news, men\u2019s and women\u2019s basketball will face off against University of Alabama-Huntsville and Lee University this week. The doubleheaders are set for tip off at 5:30 on Thursday and 2 p.m. on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>As always, to keep up with all of our news, events and activities, please visit our website at deltastate.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joining President LaForge is Dr. Temika Simmons, co-chair of the Winning the Race committee and program director for the Local Government Leadership Institute. Martin Luther King, Jr.\u2019s famous &#8220;I Have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":554,"featured_media":79477,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-president"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/554"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82423"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82550,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82423\/revisions\/82550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}