{"id":663,"date":"2020-07-18T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/?p=663"},"modified":"2020-07-31T18:01:58","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T18:01:58","slug":"commemorating-nelson-mandela-international-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/2020\/07\/18\/commemorating-nelson-mandela-international-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Commemorating Nelson Mandela International Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In recognition of his birthday and advocacy to end social injustices, we commemorate\u00a0<strong>Nelson Mandela International Day<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>We remember a revolutionary leader, former\u00a0<strong>President of South Africa<\/strong>, and philanthropist who challenged us to change the world through education. He taught us that &#8220;<em>sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Our nation has been engulfed by the pandemic and protests against police brutality. The fight for equity and justice continues as we reflect on Mandela&#8217;s life and carry on his legacy.<\/p>\n<p>May we never forget his words,\u00a0<em>that no matter how small the action, we can start changing our world for the better daily<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly this year, his youngest daughter,\u00a0<strong>Zindziswa &#8220;Zindzi&#8221;\u00a0Mandela -Hlongwane,\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>passed away. She was an activist, ambassador, and South African diplomat, and poet.<\/p>\n<p>On this day, we honor the Mandela family for their lifelong commitment to building a better community &#8211; locally and globally.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons aligncenter is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mandeladay.com\/pages\/what-can-i-do\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Take Action<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recognition of his birthday and advocacy to end social injustices, we commemorate\u00a0<strong>Nelson Mandela International Day<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>We remember a revolutionary leader, former\u00a0<strong>President of South Africa<\/strong>, and philanthropist who challenged us to change the world through education. He taught us that &#8220;<em>sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/2020\/07\/18\/commemorating-nelson-mandela-international-day\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}