{"id":5930,"date":"2010-03-12T16:09:56","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T16:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=5930"},"modified":"2010-03-12T16:09:56","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T16:09:56","slug":"the-end-of-black-history-a-postscript-to-my-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=5930","title":{"rendered":"The End of Black History: A Postscript to My Son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/video.newsweek.com\/#?t=69060401001&amp;l=68705437001\" target=\"_blank\">The End of Black History: A Postscript to My Son<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\" target=\"_blank\">Newsweek.com<\/a><br \/>\n2010-02-28<br \/>\n00:13:57<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/33730\" target=\"_blank\">Raina Kelley<\/a><\/strong>, Weekly Columnist<\/p>\n<p>In trying to understand what black history will mean to my son when he&#8217;s old enough to wonder, I went in search of the purpose of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_History_Month\" target=\"_blank\">Black History Month<\/a>. (Video: Raina Kelly, Jon Groat; Additional material courtesy Angelique Kidjo, Penn Museum)<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"398\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/bc.newsweek.com\/players\/v2\/embed\/newsweek.swf?l=68705437001&amp;t=69060401001&amp;c=40211\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"398\" src=\"http:\/\/bc.newsweek.com\/players\/v2\/embed\/newsweek.swf?l=68705437001&amp;t=69060401001&amp;c=40211\" wmode=\"transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The End of Black History: A Postscript to My Son Newsweek.com 2010-02-28 00:13:57 Raina Kelley, Weekly Columnist In trying to understand what black history will mean to my son when he&#8217;s old enough to wonder, I went in search of the purpose of Black History Month. (Video: Raina Kelly, Jon Groat; Additional material courtesy Angelique [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,26,394,20,842],"tags":[2459,2458],"class_list":["post-5930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-media","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-usa","category-videos","tag-newsweek","tag-raina-kelley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5930","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=5930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}