On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Mount St. Joseph University held a commemoration and on-campus march to honor his legacy.
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Mount St. Joseph University held a commemoration and on-campus march to honor his legacy. The march was held at 10:30 a.m., where students, faculty, and staff gathered with posters followed by a candle light vigil prayer commemorating the life and legacy of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The Mount has participated in the march in downtown Cincinnati in previous years, but this particular year held a special significance to the community, held on campus for the first time.
MSJ Black Student Union President Melissa Duke was instrumental in putting it together, and says she hopes the march will be a catalyst for change. “I feel like it is a big start to the solution,” Duke tells Spectrum News 1. “I definitely feel like this will become a tradition for Martin Luther King week for years on end at Mount St. Joseph and hopefully it will inspire other universities to do the same.”
Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer/Title IX Coordinator, Rayshawn Eastman, reflects on its significance and impact at large. “What we have to realize is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave us a gift," Eastman tells Local 12, "and that gift was knowledge of how important community is for us as a nation and we wanted to be just that for our students and the community.”
Watch the MSJ March on campus featured on Spectrum News 1.