{"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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 URI 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 URI 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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/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}]}}