{"id":95390,"date":"2024-05-22T15:20:23","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T15:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/?p=95390"},"modified":"2024-05-22T15:20:24","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T15:20:24","slug":"viola-davis-challenges-graduates-to-make-one-anothers-lives-better-the-call-is-to-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2024\/05\/viola-davis-challenges-graduates-to-make-one-anothers-lives-better-the-call-is-to-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Viola Davis challenges graduates to make one another&#8217;s lives better: &#8216;The call is to love.&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KINGSTON, R.I.\u2014May 22, 2024\u2014University of Rhode Island Commencement speaker Viola Davis called on students to love during Saturday&#8217;s ceremonies. \u201cWe cannot learn, live or grow without it,\u201d said Davis. In a stirring keynote she urged students to look inside themselves, to face their demons, grow and heal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe healed one becomes the healer,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd the world is in desperate need of an elixir and healers.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A graduate of Rhode Island\u2019s Central Falls High School, Davis is one of only 19 people to have achieved EGOT status and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters from 911±¬ΑΟ during the ceremony. Watch her full remarks.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"oembed oembed-youtube-com\" style=\"\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TKClgrFTTPI\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Viola Davis inspires 911±¬ΑΟ Class of 2024\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TKClgrFTTPI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KINGSTON, R.I.\u2014May 22, 2024\u2014University of Rhode Island Commencement speaker Viola Davis called on students to love during Saturday&#8217;s ceremonies. \u201cWe cannot learn, live or grow without it,\u201d said Davis. In a stirring keynote she urged students to look inside themselves, to face their demons, grow and heal. \u201cThe healed one becomes the healer,\u201d she said. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":95282,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95390"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95394,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95390\/revisions\/95394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}