{"id":6886,"date":"2017-09-08T16:59:24","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T16:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2017\/09\/14\/chief-diversity-officer-michael-jennings-moderates-whats-in-a-name\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:58:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:58:20","slug":"chief-diversity-officer-michael-jennings-moderates-whats-in-a-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/chief-diversity-officer-michael-jennings-moderates-whats-in-a-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Diversity Officer Michael Jennings moderates &#8220;What&#8217;s in a Name?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University Chief Diversity Officer Michael Jennings served as moderator for the Sept. 7 community discussion hosted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/news\/2017\/09\/07\/greenville-debates-wade-hampton-issue\/640215001\/\"><em><strong>The Greenville News<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, &#8220;What&#8217;s in a Name?&#8221; The discussion raised pros and cons of changing the name of local high school, Wade Hampton, which was named for the Confederate lieutenant general and slave holder.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Jennings as moderator, panelists included Asha Marie, Fine Arts Center and Wade Hampton student who launched a petition to do away with the name, and three Wade Hampton graduates: Rev. Deb Richardson-Moore, pastor of Triune Mercy Center; Lynda Leventis-Wells, school board trustee; and Rev. David Taylor, former student body president at the high school. Paul Hyde of the <em>News<\/em> covered the event, which drew about 100 community members to Hughes Main Library downtown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University Chief Diversity Officer Michael Jennings served as moderator for the Sept. 7 community discussion hosted by The Greenville News, &#8220;What&#8217;s in a Name?&#8221; The discussion raised pros and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":6887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diversity-equity-and-inclusion","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6886","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\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}