{"id":3103,"date":"2020-06-19T16:12:24","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T20:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/africana\/?p=3103"},"modified":"2020-06-22T07:59:25","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T11:59:25","slug":"hundreds-protest-police-brutality-advocate-for-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/africana\/2020\/06\/19\/hundreds-protest-police-brutality-advocate-for-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds protest police brutality, advocate for change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>More than 200 members of the Johns Hopkins community\u2014faculty, staff, students, alumni, and neighbors of the university&#8217;s campuses\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/hub.jhu.edu\/2020\/06\/19\/black-lives-matter-protest-juneteenth\/\">assembled along Charles Street on Thursday for a peaceful demonstration in solidarity with the protests that have taken place around the country since the death of George Floyd on May 25.<\/a> The demonstrators also advocated for change within Johns Hopkins itself, calling for more black university leaders and faculty members and for more opportunities for black employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>James Calvin, a member of the Hopkins faculty for more that 20 years, said the university has an opportunity to set a positive example for the rest of the country and the world as a place that is inclusive and equitable for people of color. A professor of management and organization at the Caray Business School and the interim director of the Center for Africana Studies, Calvin said he&#8217;s proud of the strides Hopkins has made so far, but that there is still work to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Universities play a key role in society, and if we can&#8217;t do here the things we ask society to do, then what&#8217;s our value?&#8221; he said. &#8221; As a preeminent institution that seeks to create knowledge, we have the opportunity &#8211; through our students, staff, and faculty, and through what I like to call the far-flung Hopkins empire &#8211; to truly to make change possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 200 members of the Johns Hopkins community\u2014faculty, staff, students, alumni, and neighbors of the university&#8217;s campuses\u2014assembled along Charles Street on Thursday for a peaceful demonstration in solidarity with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":259,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_tec_requires_first_save":true,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/africana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/africana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/africana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/africana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/259"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/africana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3103"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/africana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3105,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/africana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3103\/revisions\/3105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/africana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/africana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/africana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}