{"id":60609,"date":"2018-04-05T11:50:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T01:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/english-in-tribute-to-the-late-beloved-roger-ebert-a-day-for-empathy-established-in-chicago\/"},"modified":"2018-04-05T11:52:03","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T15:52:03","slug":"en-homenaje-al-fallecido-y-querido-roger-ebert-se-crea-el-dia-por-la-empatia-en-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/en-homenaje-al-fallecido-y-querido-roger-ebert-se-crea-el-dia-por-la-empatia-en-chicago\/","title":{"rendered":"In Tribute To the Late, Beloved Roger Ebert, A &#8216;Day for Empathy&#8217; Established In Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">CHICAGO<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">April 4, 2018<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; It&#8217;s a thumbs up\u2014way up in <span class=\"xn-location\">Chicago<\/span> this week as rogerebert.com, and the Roger and Chaz Ebert Foundation will firmly establish the inaugural <i>Day4Empathy<\/i> in the city. <span class=\"xn-chron\">Wednesday, April 4<\/span><sup>th<\/sup> marks the solemn fifth anniversary of the celebrated film critic and author&#8217;s untimely death, and to that end the <i>Day4Empathy <\/i>has been\u00a0declared in tribute, to reinforce the late <span class=\"xn-person\">Roger Ebert&#8217;s<\/span> embrace of the universal concepts of empathy, and his staunch belief in the necessity of humility, compassion and paying acts of kindness forward.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The <i>Day4Empathy<\/i> is a call-to-action for more of the good in each of us to show up in our everyday interactions with other people, in our work, study and play\u2014creating a better community and drawing each one of us closer to our own best selves,&#8221; says <span class=\"xn-person\">Chaz Ebert<\/span>, Roger&#8217;s widow and co-founder and chair of the Roger and Chaz Ebert Foundation. &#8220;Part of the goal of our celebration is to ignite an ongoing, citywide conversation about the transformative nature of Ebert&#8217;s compass of values in today&#8217;s divisive landscape\u2014and issue a loud and resounding call-to-action.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want to establish this celebration here, in my home city, and have it move from <span class=\"xn-location\">Chicago<\/span> across the state, even nationwide ultimately,&#8221; she continues. &#8220;And on this 50<sup>th<\/sup> year anniversary of the death of the Rev. Dr. <span class=\"xn-person\">Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/span>, I am mindful of Dr. King&#8217;s admonition that the time is always right, to do what is right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The late <span class=\"xn-person\">Roger Ebert&#8217;s<\/span> life, work and success was guided by his deeply rooted moral compass which embraced empathy, kindness, compassion and forgiveness as a way of life. The<i>\u00a0Day4Empathy<\/i> will include the citywide distribution of kindness cards and bracelets by <i>Day4Empathy <\/i>ambassadors, encouraging people to perform acts of kindness, while acknowledging and paying forward kindnesses shown to them. There are also plans for a media tour, an empathy truck, and to introduce a creative expression project in partnership with the <span class=\"xn-location\">Chicago<\/span> Public Schools, presenting ten <span class=\"xn-money\">$1,000<\/span> awards to young people for the best interpretations\u2014in any medium\u2014of their definitions of empathy.<\/p>\n<p><b>ABOUT THE ROGER AND CHAZ EBERT FOUNDATION<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-person\">Chaz Ebert<\/span> co-founded the Roger and Chaz Ebert Foundation with her late husband, the acclaimed film critic and author, <span class=\"xn-person\">Roger Ebert<\/span>. She is also chairman of the board for the Foundation. More information on the first annual <i>Day4Empathy<\/i> celebration in <span class=\"xn-location\">Chicago<\/span> can be found on the web site, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/empathy\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.rogerebert.com\/empathy<\/a>. Ms. Ebert is the CEO of several Ebert enterprises, including the president of The Ebert Company Ltd., and of Ebert Digital LLC, publisher and co-founder of RogerEbert.com, established in 2002 and where she continues as its publisher, president of Ebert Productions, chairman of the board of The Roger and Chaz Ebert Foundation and co-founder and producer of Ebertfest, the film festival now in its 20<sup>th<\/sup> year.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE  Roger and Chaz Ebert Foundation<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">CHICAGO<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">April 4, 2018<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; It&#8217;s a thumbs up\u2014way up in <span class=\"xn-location\">Chicago<\/span> this week as rogerebert.com, and the Roger and Chaz Ebert Foundation will firmly establish the inaugural <i>Day4Empathy<\/i> in the city. <span class=\"xn-chron\">Wednesday, April 4<\/span><sup>th<\/sup> marks the solemn fifth anniversary of the celebrated film critic and author&#8217;s untimely death, and to that end the <i>Day4Empathy <\/i>has been\u00a0declared in tribute, to reinforce the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interes-humano"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}