{"id":10386,"date":"2021-01-22T16:49:53","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T16:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=10386"},"modified":"2021-12-02T20:46:49","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T20:46:49","slug":"pioneer-press-covers-lecture-on-racial-justice-by-professor-william-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2021\/01\/22\/pioneer-press-covers-lecture-on-racial-justice-by-professor-william-green\/","title":{"rendered":"Pioneer Press Covers Lecture on Racial Justice by Professor William Green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6553 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/01\/Pioneer-Press-logo-300x68.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"68\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/01\/Pioneer-Press-logo-300x68.png 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/01\/Pioneer-Press-logo.png 717w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>On January 20, William Green, M. Anita Gay Hawthorne professor of critical race and ethnic studies at Augsburg University, gave a lecture titled \u201cWhat Happened in This Region to Create the Disparities That Black Americans Continue to Experience Today?\u201d The lecture was part of a series on racial justice sponsored by the St. Croix Valley Foundation. In it, Green spoke about moments in history, such as the Civil War, when people addressed injustice; reflected on whether or not the protests following the death of George Floyd signaled major change; and spoke about the need for leaders to make racial equity a priority if the work is to continue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The lecture was covered by the Pioneer Press in the article <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.twincities.com\/2021\/01\/20\/for-racial-equity-to-occur-there-must-first-be-a-formation-of-trust-professor-says\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cFor racial equity to occur, there must first be a \u2018formation of trust,\u2019 professor says.\u2019<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 20, William Green, M. Anita Gay Hawthorne professor of critical race and ethnic studies at Augsburg University, gave a lecture titled \u201cWhat Happened in This Region to Create the Disparities That Black Americans Continue to Experience Today?\u201d The lecture was part of a series on racial justice sponsored by the St. Croix Valley &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10386"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10742,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10386\/revisions\/10742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}