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Philadelphia 76er star Wali Wonder Jones had a big decision to make the day after MLK s assassination.
Speaker in Diversity in Hospitality series tells students to remember the past
March 1, 2021 at 12:00am
It was Nov.4, 1968 the day Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed on the balcony of a motel in Memphis, Tennessee. A thousand miles away, NBA player Wali Wonder Jones, his teammate and NBA legend Wilt Chamberlin, the entire reigning NBA Championship team and the Philadelphia 76ers had a huge decision to make: play the game or sit out in protest. Jones and Chamberlin voted not to play.
2020 was a character-building year filled with a lot of adversity but a lot of diversity. The scariest part of going through a pandemic is the unknown. We cooked for first responders. We started shipping across the country. We ship direct through our website with baking instructions. We now deliver mac and cheese to Brooklyn and Los Angeles and Tallahassee. We never would have thought to do that if not for the pandemic. Sometimes you get into your comfort zone and comfort kills. What I m grateful for is that the community has come out for us, and I haven t fired or laid off one single person.