{"id":33841,"date":"2013-09-24T02:16:49","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T02:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=33841"},"modified":"2013-09-24T02:16:49","modified_gmt":"2013-09-24T02:16:49","slug":"germany-elects-its-first-two-black-mps-in-breakthrough-hailed-as-historic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=33841","title":{"rendered":"Germany elects its first two black MPs in breakthrough hailed as &#8216;historic&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/europe\/germany\/10329410\/Germany-elects-its-first-two-black-MPs-in-breakthrough-hailed-as-historic.html\" target=\"_blank\">Germany elects its first two black MPs in breakthrough hailed as &#8216;historic&#8217;<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">The Telegraph<\/a><br \/>\n2013-09-23<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/journalists\/Damien_McElroy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Damien McElroy<\/a><\/strong>, Foreign Affairs Correspondent<\/p>\n<p>Berlin\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Karamba_Diaby\" target=\"_blank\">Karamba Diaby<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_M._Huber\" target=\"_blank\">Charles Huber<\/a> were elected for rival Left and Right political factions in Sunday&#8217;s general election to Germany&#8217;s parliament, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bundestag\" target=\"_blank\">Bundestag<\/a>. Both have Senegalese backgrounds but followed very different paths into politics&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Mr Huber, 56, is a well-known television actor, having featured for years in a popular peak-time detective series, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Der_Alte\" target=\"_blank\">Der Alte<\/a><\/em> (The Old Man). A nephew of a former president of Senegal, Mr Huber, whose mother is German, played the character of a police superintendent Henry Johnson between 1986 and 1997. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/europe\/germany\/10329410\/Germany-elects-its-first-two-black-MPs-in-breakthrough-hailed-as-historic.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany elects its first two black MPs in breakthrough hailed as &#8216;historic&#8217; The Telegraph 2013-09-23 Damien McElroy, Foreign Affairs Correspondent Berlin\u2014Karamba Diaby and Charles Huber were elected for rival Left and Right political factions in Sunday&#8217;s general election to Germany&#8217;s parliament, the Bundestag. Both have Senegalese backgrounds but followed very different paths into politics&#8230; &#8230;Mr [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,28,8,26],"tags":[15927,15929,15928,2948,15926,7738],"class_list":["post-33841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-europe","category-media-archive","category-politics","tag-charles-huber","tag-charles-m-huber","tag-damien-mcelroy","tag-germany","tag-karamba-diaby","tag-the-telegraph"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33841","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=33841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}