{"id":6582,"date":"2016-01-21T17:16:02","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T17:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=6582"},"modified":"2019-12-25T21:37:48","modified_gmt":"2019-12-25T21:37:48","slug":"6582","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2016\/01\/21\/6582\/","title":{"rendered":"KMSP covers Augsburg College&#8217;s Martin Luther King Jr. Convocation<br \/>with Chuck D"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/01\/Fox-9-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-6583 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/01\/Fox-9-logo-209x300.png\" alt=\"Fox 9 - logo\" width=\"140\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/01\/Fox-9-logo-209x300.png 209w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/01\/Fox-9-logo.png 334w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\" \/><\/a>Fox News affiliate KMSP recently aired a segment about Augsburg College&#8217;s Martin Luther King Jr. Convocation, which took place on January 18. This year&#8217;s event featured Chuck D&#8211;author, activist, and co-founder of influential rap group Public Enemy. Chuck D spoke to a full auditorium about how King&#8217;s ideas and legacy should be applied to the current struggles against racism faced by today&#8217;s young people.<\/p>\n<p>The segment featured brief statements by Chuck D, spoken word artist Sha Cage, and those who attended the event.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People that used to close their doors and say, &#8216;You know what, my voice doesn&#8217;t matter,&#8217; are coming outside and they are picking up signs,&#8221; Cage said of recent protests and activism.<\/p>\n<p>Watch: Public Enemy&#8217;s Chuck D. talks racial tension at Augsburg on the KMSP site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News affiliate KMSP recently aired a segment about Augsburg College&#8217;s Martin Luther King Jr. Convocation, which took place on January 18. This year&#8217;s event featured Chuck D&#8211;author, activist, and co-founder of influential rap group Public Enemy. Chuck D spoke to a full auditorium about how King&#8217;s ideas and legacy should be applied to the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3751,3762,1801],"class_list":["post-6582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","tag-chuck-d","tag-kmsp","tag-martin-luther-king-jr-convocation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6582","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\/263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6582"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9568,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6582\/revisions\/9568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}