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On MLK Day, January 20th<\/span>\u00a02020, the NAACP presented Kit Cummings with the Martin Luther King, Jr. \u201cLiving the Dream Award\u201d<\/strong> <\/em>in recognition of Kit\u2019s contribution to civil rights. It was a complete surprise to him, as they had tricked him and told him he would be speaking at their annual Gala in order to make sure he was in attendance! It was one of highlights of Kit\u2019s thirty-year career, as Dr. King has shaped his message and built the foundation for his work in the field of Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation. Below is his expression of thanks.<\/p>\n \u201cI want to sincerely and humbly thank the NAACP for graciously honoring my work with the ‘Living the Dream’ award. I couldn\u2019t be more grateful, as Dr. King changed my life and is one of my true heroes. To accept this on his behalf on HIS day means more to me than you can imagine. I AM living the dream, and sometimes I have to pinch myself to make sure it’s real. Huge thanks to NAACP past president and matriarch Deane Bonner, and current president Jeriene Grimes for partnering with the Power of Peace Project and helping to advance this very important work. Much love and mad respect!\u201d Kit<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/kitcummings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/2-1288-1-20-2020-12-41-03-PM-1.jpg” _builder_version=”4.3.4″][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On MLK Day, January 20th\u00a02020, the NAACP presented Kit Cummings with the Martin Luther King, Jr. \u201cLiving the Dream Award\u201d in recognition of Kit\u2019s contribution to civil rights. It was a complete surprise to him, as they had tricked him and told him he would be speaking at their annual Gala in order to make […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":" I want to sincerely and humbly thank the NAACP for graciously honoring my work with the MLK \u201cLiving the Dream\u201d award. I couldn\u2019t be more grateful, as Dr. King changed my life and is one of my true heroes. To accept this on his behalf on HIS day means more to me than you can imagine. I am living the dream, sometimes I have to pinch myself to make sure it is real. God is so good, and he obviously loves Knuckleheads. Huge thanks to NAACP past president and Matriarch Deane Bonner, and current president Jeriene Grimes for partnering with the Power of Peace Project and helping to advance this very important work. Much love and mad respect!<\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home-page-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitcummings.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitcummings.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitcummings.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitcummings.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitcummings.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6500"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kitcummings.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26359,"href":"https:\/\/kitcummings.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6500\/revisions\/26359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitcummings.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitcummings.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitcummings.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitcummings.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}