MLK Day

As many of you may know, today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. This is in remembrance of the life and legacy of Dr.Martin Luther King Jr. At Northwood, we like to honor any special day, such as today with a small ceremony. Today I had the honor of announcing our speaker for our small MLK day ceremony. The speaker was Tenetia Carpenter, a Northwood alumna.

Tenetia spoke on three main points that really impacted me as to how I need to go about things. She of course related this back to the life of MLK. The one point that really stuck out to me was that we just need to get out in the world and "do." This is simply taking action on things that you want to see happen. If you just sit around and follow the crowd, things that you want to see changed aren't going to change. This was what happened with Dr. King. He wanted a change in the world so he did just that and spoke out for justice and equality.

So many times in life we get wrapped up in just going along with the crowd and being a follower and we do not realize that we can do so much more than that. We need to really take example from Dr. King not only how he fought for justice but that he actually tried for something he believed in!

Provost Dr. Fegan and our speaker Tenetia Carpenter

-Christen