{"id":2038,"date":"2017-03-01T22:14:40","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T22:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.obumagazine.com\/?p=2038"},"modified":"2017-05-04T18:53:52","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T18:53:52","slug":"black-history-month-observed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.okbu.edu\/obumagazine\/black-history-month-observed\/","title":{"rendered":"Black History Month Observed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">OBU hosted several events during February in observance of Black History Month. Bertholomew Bailey, OBU admissions counselor, reenacted the famous \u201cI Have a Dream\u201d speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The OBU English department and United Students of Color sponsored an African-American Read-In where readers shared literary works from numerous authors. The campus also hosted a gospel music service featuring choirs from local Baptist churches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The United Students of Color and other members of the OBU community also attended Unity Baptist Church in Oklahoma City for a Sunday service. The church was founded by the late Rev. Dr. Eric A. Mayes, Jr., the first African-American graduate of OBU in 1963. He authored five books and founded a nonprofit ministry which provides scholarships for college-bound students. He died Sept. 10, 2014, leaving behind 90 years of an outstanding legacy in both Baptist ministry and African-American achievement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OBU hosted several events during February in observance of Black History Month. Bertholomew Bailey, OBU admissions counselor, reenacted the famous \u201cI Have a Dream\u201d speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The OBU English department and United Students of Color sponsored an African-American Read-In where readers shared literary works from numerous authors. The campus also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2569,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":""},"categories":[128,86],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.okbu.edu\/obumagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Prophet-Baily-1-hi-res.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7BMz3-wS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okbu.edu\/obumagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okbu.edu\/obumagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okbu.edu\/obumagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okbu.edu\/obumagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okbu.edu\/obumagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.okbu.edu\/obumagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2039,"href":"https:\/\/www.okbu.edu\/obumagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038\/revisions\/2039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okbu.edu\/obumagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okbu.edu\/obumagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okbu.edu\/obumagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okbu.edu\/obumagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}