{"id":260,"date":"2018-02-07T18:45:23","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T18:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2018\/02\/07\/201827danny-glover-kick-starts-black-history-month-at-qu\/"},"modified":"2020-09-05T19:48:44","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T19:48:44","slug":"201827danny-glover-kick-starts-black-history-month-at-qu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2018\/02\/07\/201827danny-glover-kick-starts-black-history-month-at-qu\/","title":{"rendered":"Danny Glover kick starts Black History Month at QU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Victoria Rutigliano<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a id='4SSBlH0rT0x6wcRDQwdQFg' class='gie-single' href='http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/908155940' target='_blank' style='color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;'>Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'4SSBlH0rT0x6wcRDQwdQFg',sig:'EwaQeWjvfLgVrTM8W2Z_7eEhnPSfKYUYp1wFWK5HoSg=',w:'425px',h:'594px',items:'908155940',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Danny Glover sat down with members in and around the Quinnipiac community Tuesday night to discuss the start of Black History Month and how he\u2019s using his platform to speak about change.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Known for his roles on camera from movies such as \u201cLethal Weapon,&#8221; \u201cThe Color Purple,&#8221; and \u201cAngels in the Outfield,&#8221;&nbsp;Glover said he and his mom both agreed his fame was meant to go beyond the movies he performed in. This agreement was what brought him to Quinnipiac\u2019s campus.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Glover discussed how his passion didn\u2019t come from acting, but by identifying and looking up to people like his parents, Bob Moses, and several civil rights movements.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\u201cI want to be of some use,\u201d Glover said. \u201cAt the beginning, I felt that I was of some use and the idea of being a child of the civil rights movement and how much I identified with those moments.\u201d<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div\n        class=\"\n          image-block-outer-wrapper\n          layout-caption-below\n          design-layout-inline\n          \n          \n          \n        \"\n        data-test=\"image-block-inline-outer-wrapper\"\n    ><\/p>\n<figure\n            class=\"\n              sqs-block-image-figure\n              intrinsic\n            \"\n            style=\"max-width:2500.0px;\"\n        ><\/p>\n<div\n              \n                style=\"padding-bottom:75.0%;\"\n              \n              class=\"\n                image-block-wrapper\n                \n          \n        \n                has-aspect-ratio\n              \"\n              data-animation-role=\"image\"\n              \n  data-animation-override\n\n          ><br \/>\n            <noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/3_Image-uploaded-from-iOS.jpg\" alt=\"Image uploaded from iOS.jpg\" \/><\/noscript><img class=\"thumb-image\" data-src=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/3_Image-uploaded-from-iOS.jpg\" data-image=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/3_Image-uploaded-from-iOS.jpg\" data-image-dimensions=\"2500x1875\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,0.5\" alt=\"Image uploaded from iOS.jpg\" data-load=\"false\" data-image-id=\"5a7b448ef9619af057ff2b38\" data-type=\"image\" \/>\n          <\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<p>He discussed using his acting, like in \u201cMaster Harold,&#8221;&nbsp;as a way to start a discussion not just about black people, but about the world.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\u201cIt gave me a path, it gave me a way,\u201d Glover said. \u201cNot only could I talk about the system of Apartheid in the most brilliant writing. At the same time I could express about how I feel about the world and the justice of the world.\u201d<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Don Sawyer, the interim associate vice president for academic affairs and chief diversity officer at Quinnipiac, spoke on the importance of having someone like Glover, who\u2019s had a strong presence on TV, talk about ways he\u2019s reaching out to help others.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\u201cI mean a lot of people know him as an actor but not a lot know necessarily about his activism,\u201d Sawyer said. \u201cYou don\u2019t have to just be an actor or just be an activist but you can blend your career with also the support of the local community.\u201d<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Danny Glover sat down with members in and around the Quinnipiac community Tuesday night to discuss the start of Black History Month and how he\u2019s using his platform to speak about change.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":261,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[155,156,4],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hamden","category-quinnipiac","tag-black-history-month","tag-danny-glover","tag-quinnipiac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2984,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions\/2984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}