{"id":22598,"date":"2012-04-22T01:10:39","date_gmt":"2012-04-22T01:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=22598"},"modified":"2012-04-22T01:10:39","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T01:10:39","slug":"plaque-honour-for-first-black-star-elisabeth-welch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=22598","title":{"rendered":"Plaque honour for &#8216;first black star&#8217; Elisabeth Welch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-london-17124129\" target=\"_blank\">Plaque honour for &#8216;first black star&#8217; Elisabeth Welch<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\" target=\"_blank\">BBC News<\/a><br \/>\n2012-02-27<\/p>\n<p><em>The singer <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elisabeth_Welch\" target=\"_blank\">Elisabeth Welch<\/a> is to be commemorated with an English Heritage blue plaque in south-west London.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>She is the second black woman to be honoured with a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blue_plaque\" target=\"_blank\">blue plaque<\/a> in London.<\/p>\n<p>It will be unveiled in Ovington Court, Kensington, which was her home during the 1930s when she rose to fame on the cabaret circuit.<\/p>\n<p>The performer died aged 99 in 2003 and has been described as &#8220;Britain&#8217;s first black star&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Reid, Director of Black Cultural Archives said it was &#8220;an important moment for black heritage&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Welch was born in New York in 1904, but lived in London for 70 years&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;The first black woman to be honoured with a plaque was the nurse <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mary_Seacole\" target=\"_blank\">Mary Seacole<\/a> in 2005&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-london-17124129\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plaque honour for &#8216;first black star&#8217; Elisabeth Welch BBC News 2012-02-27 The singer Elisabeth Welch is to be commemorated with an English Heritage blue plaque in south-west London. She is the second black woman to be honoured with a blue plaque in London. It will be unveiled in Ovington Court, Kensington, which was her home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,1245,8,10,25],"tags":[8597,10487],"class_list":["post-22598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-biography","category-media-archive","category-uk","category-women","tag-bbc-news","tag-elisabeth-welch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}