{"id":8131,"date":"2023-02-22T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T14:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/?p=7910"},"modified":"2023-02-22T09:00:02","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T14:00:02","slug":"youre-invited-to-mus-2023-black-history-month-keynote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/2023\/02\/22\/youre-invited-to-mus-2023-black-history-month-keynote\/","title":{"rendered":"You\u2019re invited to MU\u2019s 2023 Black History Month keynote"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7911\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7911\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/Ndiaye.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7911\" src=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/Ndiaye-300x260.png\" alt=\"A photo of Her Excellency Michelle Ndiaye.\" width=\"300\" height=\"260\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7911\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Her Excellency Michelle Ndiaye<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On Feb. 28, we welcome to campus Her Excellency Michelle Ndiaye, special representative of the chairperson of the African Union. She is also the head of the African Union Liaison Office in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the granddaughter of L\u00e9opold S\u00e9dar Senghor, a founder of the Negritude Movement and the first President of Senegal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">She will deliver our <a href=\"https:\/\/calendar.missouri.edu\/event\/2023_keynote_black_history_month_lecture_on_africa_in_the_global_landscape_democracy_food_security_and_the_role_of_the_youth?utm_campaign=widget&amp;utm_medium=widget&amp;utm_source=Mizzou+Events+Calendar\">2023 Distinguished Black History Month Keynote Lecture,<\/a> \u201cAfrica in the Global Landscape: Democracy, Food Security and the Role of the Youth.\u201d Before her lecture, she will host a lunchtime Q&amp;A with students to discuss her life experiences and wide-ranging expertise in democratic and local governance as well as sustainable development.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Her presentation is the culmination of our <a href=\"https:\/\/blackstudies.missouri.edu\/black-history-month\">campuswide celebration of Black History Month<\/a> that has included speakers, student artwork and community events. The free lecture begins at 6:30 p.m. in Monsanto Auditorium.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2014 Mun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Feb. 28, we welcome to campus Her Excellency Michelle Ndiaye, special representative of the chairperson of the African Union. She is also the head of the African Union Liaison Office in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the granddaughter of L\u00e9opold S\u00e9dar Senghor, a founder of the Negritude Movement and the first President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}