{"id":1793,"date":"2006-02-20T09:56:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-20T14:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2006\/02\/20\/a-visit-from-bernice-johnson-reagon\/"},"modified":"2006-02-20T09:56:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-20T14:56:00","slug":"a-visit-from-bernice-johnson-reagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2006\/02\/20\/a-visit-from-bernice-johnson-reagon\/","title":{"rendered":"A visit from Bernice Johnson Reagon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4258\/2290\/1600\/banner2_01.0.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4258\/2290\/200\/banner2_01.0.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:bold\">Bernice Johnson Reagon<\/span> will be speaking this week at a screening of <span style=\"font-style:italic\">Sweet Honey In the Rock: Raise Your Voice<\/span>, a documentary by filmmaker Stanley Nelson. The event, presented by the <a href=\"http:\/\/centerforsocialmedia.org\/\">Center for Social Media<\/a> and the American University Honors Program, will be at 6:30pm on Thursday, Feb. 23, in the Wechsler Theater in Mary Graydon Center. Dr. Johnson was active in the American Civil Rights Movement and founded the a capella group Sweet Honey in the Rock. <br \/>Also of note: The Emmy-award-winning PBS program <span style=\"font-style:italic\">The Songs Are Free<\/span>, a conversation between Dr. Reagon and Bill Moyers about African-American communal singing, is available for viewing in Media Services, VHS 1878.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernice Johnson Reagon will be speaking this week at a screening of Sweet Honey In the Rock: Raise Your Voice, a documentary by filmmaker Stanley Nelson. The event, presented by the Center for Social Media and the American University Honors Program, will be at 6:30pm on Thursday, Feb. 23, in the Wechsler Theater in Mary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[207,266],"class_list":["post-1793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-lectures","tag-performances"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}