{"id":59579,"date":"2014-04-02T21:21:52","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T02:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=59579"},"modified":"2014-04-02T21:21:52","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T02:21:52","slug":"delta-center-talks-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2014\/04\/delta-center-talks-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta Center talks politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Luther Brown, director of The Delta Center for Culture and Learning, recently had the opportunity to address a group of 150 Congressmen, Senators and their staff members as part of the <i>Faith and Politics Institute 2014 Congressional Civil Rights Pilgrimage<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Brown spoke to the group during their lunch at Ground Zero Blues Club in Clarksdale.\u00a0 He was preceded by Congressman Bennie Thompson, 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Mississippi Congressional District. Following his comments on the history and culture of the Delta, Dr. Brown introduced the\u00a0Poet Laureate of the United States, Natasha Trethewey.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the Delta Center for Culture and Learning, call 662-846-4311.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Luther Brown, director of The Delta Center for Culture and Learning, recently had the opportunity to address a group of 150 Congressmen, Senators and their staff members as part&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":59580,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[122],"class_list":["post-59579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-delta-center","tag-the-delta-center-for-culture-and-learning"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59581,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59579\/revisions\/59581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}