{"id":100001,"date":"2021-01-11T11:18:55","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T16:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=100001"},"modified":"2021-01-11T14:16:15","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T19:16:15","slug":"bolinga-black-cultural-resources-center-to-mark-50th-anniversary-with-online-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2021\/01\/11\/bolinga-black-cultural-resources-center-to-mark-50th-anniversary-with-online-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Bolinga Black Cultural Resources Center to mark 50th anniversary with online celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2021\/01\/11\/bolinga-black-cultural-resources-center-to-mark-50th-anniversary-with-online-celebration\/bolinga_bcrc_50th_1_\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-100021\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-100021\" src=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2021\/01\/bolinga_bcrc_50th_1_-508x193.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"175\" \/><\/a>The Bolinga Black Cultural Resources Center at Wright State University will mark its 50th anniversary with an online celebration Friday, Jan. 15.<\/p>\n<p>The celebration, sponsored by the African American Alumni Society and covering the Bolinga Center\u2019s five decades of existence, will be held from 6 to 7:30 p.m. <a href=\"https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/j\/82853604229?pwd=NnZ3Tk1Vd1AyRE5RSVl6Tld3QVNDZz09\">via Zoom<\/a>. Meeting ID: 828 5360 4229; Passcode: 657658.<\/p>\n<p>More details are available at <a href=\"http:\/\/community.wrightstatealumni.com\/s\/1606\/hybrid\/index.aspx?sid=1606&amp;gid=1&amp;pgid=2256&amp;cid=3748&amp;ecid=3748&amp;ciid=8046&amp;crid=0\">community.wrightstatealumni.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bolinga,&#8221; which means love in Lingala, an African language, has been a cultural powerhouse that has enriched the campus with celebrations, famous speakers and history lessons related to the African American experience.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wright.edu\/inclusive-excellence\/culture-and-identity-centers\/bolinga-black-cultural-resources-center\/about\">Bolinga Center<\/a> has organized celebrations paying tribute to civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and has hosted talks from minority scholars and minority community leaders. It has also organized Kwanza celebrations and organized film series and arts and community festivals.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2020\/09\/21\/alone-together\/\">Bolinga Black Cultural Resources Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bolinga Black Cultural Resources Center will mark its 50th anniversary with a celebration on Zoom on Jan. 15. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2021\/01\/11\/bolinga-black-cultural-resources-center-to-mark-50th-anniversary-with-online-celebration\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":100017,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[733,725,715],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-home-news-sidebar","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100001"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100057,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100001\/revisions\/100057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}