{"id":26488,"date":"2012-11-15T00:44:18","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T00:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=26488"},"modified":"2013-07-06T13:17:03","modified_gmt":"2013-07-06T13:17:03","slug":"strange-fruit-dr-yaba-blays-1ne-drop-project-director-kenny-leon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=26488","title":{"rendered":"Strange Fruit: Dr. Yaba Blay&#8217;s (1)ne Drop Project; Director Kenny Leon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/wfpl.org\/post\/strange-fruit-dr-yaba-blays-1ne-drop-project-director-kenny-leon\" target=\"_blank\">Strange Fruit: Dr. Yaba Blay&#8217;s (<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">1<\/span>)ne Drop Project; Director Kenny Leon<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wfpl.org\" target=\"_blank\">WFPL 89.3 FM<\/a><br \/>\nLouisville, Kentucky<br \/>\n2012-11-03<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wfpl.org\/people\/laura-ellis\" target=\"_blank\">Laura Ellis<\/a><\/strong>, Producer<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wfpl.org\/post\/strange-fruit-dr-yaba-blays-1ne-drop-project-director-kenny-leon\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mediad.publicbroadcasting.net\/p\/wfpl\/files\/styles\/placed_wide\/public\/201211\/1drop_0.jpeg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Who is black? That&#8217;s the question the <a href=\"http:\/\/1nedrop.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">(<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">1<\/span>)ne Drop Project<\/a> seeks to answer. The project, created by <a href=\"http:\/\/yabablay.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Yaba Blay<\/a>, features photographs of people who identify as black, African-American, biracial, and other identities\u2014but whose physical appearances may provoke curiosity, or even disbelief, in strangers. Dr. Blay will appear on CNN&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/inamerica.blogs.cnn.com\/category\/black-in-america\/\" target=\"_blank\">Black in America<\/a> 5 to talk about what it means to be black. But this week she made some time to talk to us about her work&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the interview <a href=\"http:\/\/cpa.ds.npr.org\/wfpl\/audio\/2012\/11\/Episode_6_Final.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> (00:38.42). (The interview with Dr. Blay begins at 00:14:54 and ends at 00:26:01).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strange Fruit: Dr. Yaba Blay&#8217;s (1)ne Drop Project; Director Kenny Leon WFPL 89.3 FM Louisville, Kentucky 2012-11-03 Laura Ellis, Producer Who is black? That&#8217;s the question the (1)ne Drop Project seeks to answer. The project, created by Dr. Yaba Blay, features photographs of people who identify as black, African-American, biracial, and other identities\u2014but whose physical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2850,459,125,8,394,20],"tags":[9247,12733,12732,12731,7992],"class_list":["post-26488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-history","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-1ne-drop-project","tag-laura-ellis","tag-wfpl","tag-wfpl-89-3-fm","tag-yaba-blay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26488","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=26488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}