{"id":7156,"date":"2018-01-15T16:39:14","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T16:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2018\/01\/16\/nontombi-naomi-tutu-talks-about-truth-at-mlk-community-breakfast\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:00:10","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:00:10","slug":"nontombi-naomi-tutu-talks-about-truth-at-mlk-community-breakfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/nontombi-naomi-tutu-talks-about-truth-at-mlk-community-breakfast\/","title":{"rendered":"Tutu talks about truth at MLK Community Breakfast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nontombi Naomi Tutu, daughter of South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, spoke at a Community Breakfast Jan. 12 as part of a series of events\u00a0honoring the life and work of Martin Luther King, Jr., &#8220;Building the Beloved Community.&#8221; Her talk,\u00a0\u201cTruth &amp; Reconciliation: Healing the Wounds of Racism,\u201d was\u00a0sponsored by\u00a0Furman\u2019s Center for Inclusive Communities and the Community Relations office. It\u00a0focused on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) formed\u00a0to help South Africa move forward and unify following the end of\u00a0apartheid. For Tutu, the TRC underscored the reality that, among other things, history is made up of victories and horrible tragedy. But, she said in a piece published by\u00a0<em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/news\/2018\/01\/12\/nontombi-naomi-tutu-talks-truth-mlk-community-breakfast\/1027478001\/\">The Greenville News<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, \u201cthe only way to move forward is by telling the truth of our story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nontombi Naomi Tutu, daughter of South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, spoke at a Community Breakfast Jan. 12 as part of a series of events\u00a0honoring the life and work of Martin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":7157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7156","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\/7156","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=7156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}