{"id":6711,"date":"2017-06-04T15:33:38","date_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2017\/06\/05\/injustice-racism-and-honest-talk\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T20:00:37","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T01:00:37","slug":"injustice-racism-and-honest-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/injustice-racism-and-honest-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Injustice, racism and honest talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, retired Furman English professor Bill Rogers served on the planning committee for the Shared Knowledge Conference 2017, &#8220;A Just Greenville.&#8221; The theme of the conference was justice\u2014for women, for immigrants, for people of color. In an op-ed for <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/opinion\/2017\/06\/01\/fighting-injustice-and-racism-begins-honest-talk\/361925001\/\">The Greenville News<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, Rogers writes that the conference made him confront several ideas, including the notion that injustice and racism feed off each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, retired Furman English professor Bill Rogers served on the planning committee for the Shared Knowledge Conference 2017, &#8220;A Just Greenville.&#8221; The theme of the conference was justice\u2014for women, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":6712,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,31,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-english","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}