{"id":9604,"date":"2020-02-24T14:21:55","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T20:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=9604"},"modified":"2020-04-16T14:25:20","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T19:25:20","slug":"news-press-now-local-groups-celebrate-black-history-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2020\/02\/24\/news-press-now-local-groups-celebrate-black-history-month\/","title":{"rendered":"News-Press NOW: Local groups celebrate Black History Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"subscriber-preview\">\n<p><img class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com\/newspressnow.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/f\/a1\/fa13a6f4-53f8-11ea-a48f-e309fab998bf\/5e4eabad3977c.image.png?resize=1200%2C927\" width=\"1200\" height=\"927\" \/>This is the 44th year for Black History Month, which is recognized during the month of February and celebrated throughout St. Joseph.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subscriber-preview\">\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s definitely important in the month of February, because sometimes people don\u2019t get the recognition they deserve,\u201d said Latoya Muhammad, multicultural education director at Missouri Western State University. \u201cGiving folks that time and opportunity to celebrate themselves and other people that have come before them, and their future, really builds that morale and keeps people waking up the next day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newspressnow.com\/news\/local_news\/local-groups-celebrate-black-history-month\/article_eeb5e23a-5322-11ea-8061-9fb728df7ab1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">at newspressnow.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the 44th year for Black History Month, which is recognized during the month of February and celebrated throughout St. Joseph. \u201cI think it\u2019s definitely important in the month of February, because sometimes people don\u2019t get the recognition they deserve,\u201d said Latoya Muhammad, multicultural education director at Missouri Western State University. \u201cGiving folks that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[970],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9604"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9605,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9604\/revisions\/9605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}