Power of MTSUs True Blue Pledge at heart of MLK celebration message MTSU News [Video]

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Middle Tennessee State University’s True Blue Pledge, its history behind it and the power it holds was the predominant message of this year’s Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration, held Wednesday, Jan. 22, on campus.

MTSU students, faculty and staff filled the Student Union Atrium for the MTSU Office of Intercultural and Diversity Affairs program that wove the wisdom of the slain civil rights leader and his late wife, Coretta Scott King, in with the principles of the pledge: honesty, integrity, diversity and respect.

“The power of the True Blue Pledge is not just simply in the writing of it or the words contained in it. It’s about the application,” said the Rev. Vincent Windrow, co-author of the True Blue Pledge, MTSU alumnus and retired administrator who served as keynote speaker at the event. “For me, it’s a sign that the culture of MTSU has been captured.

“This is who we are in terms of our values, this is …