{"id":7984,"date":"2020-06-22T09:16:18","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T13:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/?p=7984"},"modified":"2024-03-26T10:23:40","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T14:23:40","slug":"unfinished-search-for-common-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/2020\/06\/22\/unfinished-search-for-common-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"The unfinished search for common ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The unfinished search for common ground: Howard Thurman &amp; Martin Luther King Jr.&#8217;s teachings during <em>The Fire This Time<\/em><\/h2>\n<p>In celebration of Juneteenth, we present a discussion on the contributions and ideas of Howard Thurman\u2019s \u201csearch for common ground\u201d and Martin Luther King, Jr.\u2019s vision of a World House. Today, how do we address resurfaced, deep- seated racial issues? Where and who are the leaders of today? This program is an opportunity to virtually gather to analyze and reimagine ways in which Thurman\u2019s and King\u2019s understandings of community can address the issues and challenges of race and justice in a pluralistic society \u2013 the issues with which our country and, indeed the world, struggles.<\/p>\n<p><em>This program is offered by the Black Alumni Leadership Council and the Boston University Alumni Association.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Audio trouble?<\/strong> Click the five gray bar icon in the bottom right corner of video window to turn up the volume manually.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome and introduction: <strong>Kenneth Elmore (Wheelock)<\/strong><br \/>\nAssociate Provost and Dean of Students, Boston University<\/p>\n<p><strong>Panelists:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong title=\"\">Reverend Walter E. Fluker (GRS, STH)<br \/>\n<\/strong>Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Ethical Leadership, BU,<em title=\"\">Retired<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong title=\"\">Reverend Zina Jacque (STH)<br \/>\n<\/strong>Pastor at Community Church of Barrington<\/p>\n<p><strong title=\"\">Reverend Brandon Thomas Crowley, PhD<br \/>\n<\/strong>Senior Pastor of the Historic Myrtle Baptist Church in West Newton, Massachusetts<strong title=\"\"><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rose Percy (STH)<br \/>\n<\/strong>Master of Divinity student at Boston University School of Theology<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Moderator:\u00a0<strong title=\"\">Richard Taylor (COM &#8217;71)<br \/>\n<\/strong>Former Trustee, Boston University,\u00a0Chairman of the Taylor Smith Group,\u00a0<span>Founding Director of the Center for Real Estate at Suffolk University<\/span><strong title=\"\"><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In celebration of Juneteenth, a conversation on Howard Thurman &#038; Martin Luther King Jr.&#8217;s teachings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16959,"featured_media":7996,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,1,390],"tags":[556,555,554,75,558,557,559],"featured_img":"\/alumni\/files\/2020\/06\/The-Unfinished-Search-for-Common-Ground-Thumbnail-800x600.png","agg_excerpt":"In celebration of Juneteenth, a conversation on Howard Thurman & Martin Luther King Jr.'s teachings.","agg_title":"The unfinished search for common ground","media_icon":"webinar-icon","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7984"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16959"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7984"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9104,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7984\/revisions\/9104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}