{"id":301,"date":"2020-10-14T18:14:01","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T18:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/?post_type=furman-event&#038;p=301"},"modified":"2021-01-08T17:47:31","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T17:47:31","slug":"mlk-jr-liberalism-and-richard-rortys-prediction-2021-03-30","status":"publish","type":"furman-event","link":"https:\/\/furman.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_3IIo3x5NT3q8tx8Qi8EeDw","title":{"rendered":"MLK Jr., Liberalism and Richard Rorty\u2019s Prediction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reverend Eugene F. Rivers III is a Pentecostal minister, community activist, and renowned speaker. A former gang member, Reverend Rivers is recognized as one of the most effective crusaders against gang violence.\u00a0 In 1984, he founded Azusa Christian Community in Boston\u2019s inner-city Dorchester neighborhood.\u00a0 As president of the National Ten Point Leadership Foundation, he worked to build new grassroots leadership in forty of the worst inner-city neighborhoods in America. \u00a0In addition to youth activism, Reverend Rivers has worked on community development, faith-based initiatives, and domestic and foreign policy issues. He advised both Bush Administrations and the Clinton Administration on their faith-based initiatives and on foreign policy regarding the AIDS crisis in Africa. Rivers has appeared on CNN\u2019s <em>Hardball<\/em>, NBC\u2019s <em>Meet the Press<\/em>, PBS\u2019s <em>Charlie Rose<\/em>, BET\u2019s <em>Lead Story<\/em>, and on National Public Radio.\u00a0 He has been featured or provided commentary in numerous publications such as <em>Newsweek<\/em>, <em>The New Yorker<\/em>, <em>The New York Times<\/em>, <em>The<\/em> <em>Washington Post<\/em>, the <em>Los<\/em> <em>Angeles Times<\/em>, the <em>Boston Herald<\/em>, <em>Christianity Today<\/em>, and <em>Sojourners<\/em>. He has also written numerous essays, including \u201cOn the Responsibility of Intellectuals in an Age of Crack,\u201d \u201cBeyond the Nationalism of Fools: A Manifesto for a New Black Movement,\u201d and \u201cBlack Churches and the Challenge of U.S. Foreign and Development Policy.\u201d Rivers was educated at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and at Harvard University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reverend Eugene F. Rivers III is a Pentecostal minister, community activist, and renowned speaker. A former gang member, Reverend Rivers is recognized as one of the most effective crusaders against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":302,"template":"","event-categories":[],"class_list":["post-301","furman-event","type-furman-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"predefined_location":"","location_name":"","location_street_address":"","location_address_locality":"","location_address_region":"","location_postal_code":"","link_text":"Click here to register for the virtual event.","link_css":"","event_start_date":"2021-03-30","event_end_date":"2021-03-30","event_all_day":"","event_start_time":"17:00","event_end_time":"18:30","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/furman-event"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"furman-event-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-categories?post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}