{"id":127079,"date":"2018-05-29T13:41:07","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T17:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/?p=127079"},"modified":"2020-09-17T10:23:16","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T14:23:16","slug":"why-wearorange-on-national-gun-violence-awareness-day","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/news\/articles\/2018\/why-wearorange-on-national-gun-violence-awareness-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Why #WearOrange on National Gun Violence Awareness Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar js-block-editorial-metabar sphnews-prepress-layout-metabar\">\n\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-date\">May 29, 2018<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-credits\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-share js-bu-prepress-share-tools\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-action\"><\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Each year on National Gun Violence Awareness Day, the Activist Lab, Dean Galea, and members of our BU Medical Campus community gather on the Talbot Green for a group photo wearing orange as part of a <a href=\"http:\/\/wearorange.org\">national campaign<\/a> to raise awareness about gun violence.<\/p>\n<p>Why orange? Because on January 21, 2013, Hadiya Pendleton, a high school student from the south side of Chicago, marched in President Obama\u2019s second inaugural parade. One week later, Hadiya was shot and killed on a playground back in Chicago. Soon after, Hadiya\u2019s childhood friends commemorated her life by wearing orange. They chose the color because hunters wear orange in the woods to protect themselves and others.<\/p>\n<p>On June 2, 2015\u2014what would have been Hadiya\u2019s 18th birthday\u2014a broad-based coalition asked people nationwide to join in what Hadiya\u2019s friends started, honoring her life, the lives of the more than 90 Americans killed by gun violence plus the hundreds more who are injured every day, by wearing orange.<\/p>\n<p>We wear orange to demand to be seen and demand to see change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year on National Gun Violence Awareness Day, the Activist Lab, Dean Galea, and members of our BU Medical Campus community gather on the Talbot Green for a group photo wearing orange as part of a national campaign to raise awareness about gun violence. Why orange? Because on January 21, 2013, Hadiya Pendleton, a high [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13432,"featured_media":126553,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"bu_prepress_billboard":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term_manual":""},"tags":[2433,1866],"bu-publication":[3516],"sphnews-article-category":[3517,3533],"sphnews-topic":[],"bu_edition":[],"media_type":[],"profile_tax":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/127079"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/bu-article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13432"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127079"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/127079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173496,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/127079\/revisions\/173496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127079"},{"taxonomy":"bu-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-publication?post=127079"},{"taxonomy":"sphnews-article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sphnews-article-category?post=127079"},{"taxonomy":"sphnews-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sphnews-topic?post=127079"},{"taxonomy":"bu_edition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu_edition?post=127079"},{"taxonomy":"media_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media_type?post=127079"},{"taxonomy":"profile_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile_tax?post=127079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}