{"id":686,"date":"2008-02-25T08:22:23","date_gmt":"2008-02-25T08:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2008\/02\/25\/delta-state-to-host-3rd-annual-black-history-commemoration-program\/"},"modified":"2013-09-03T12:55:50","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T12:55:50","slug":"delta-state-to-host-3rd-annual-black-history-commemoration-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2008\/02\/delta-state-to-host-3rd-annual-black-history-commemoration-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta State to host 3rd Annual Black History Commemoration Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<table cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"1\" width=\"30%\" align=\"center\" summary=\"\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"216\" alt=\"\" width=\"144\" src=\"\/Images\/univ_relations\/01Lee-Pruitt.jpg\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dr. Glenell Lee-Pruitt&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The African American faculty, staff and students at Delta State University will serve as hosts to the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> Annual Black History Commemoration program entitled&nbsp; &ldquo;40 Years Later&hellip; Still Dreaming the Dream?&nbsp; Wake Up and Live It!&rdquo; on Monday, Feb. 25 at 7 p.m. in the Jacob Conference Center of Ewing Hall on the campus.&nbsp; <\/font><\/p>\n<div>The keynote speaker will be Dr. Glenell Lee-Pruitt, Dean of University College and a tenured Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Work at Mississippi Valley State University.&nbsp; Dr. Pruitt also serves as pastoral minister of the Solomon Chapel A.M.E. Church in Cleveland, where she became the first female pastor in the church&rsquo;s long history when she was assigned by Bishop C. G. Henning in December 2005.&nbsp; She is a member of the National Council of Negro Women, Incorporated and Chi Mu Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>The program will feature participants in the 1968 Sit-In at Delta State University.&nbsp; <\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>The program is free and open to the public. For more information, contact <span>Barbara McKnight at (662) 846-4697 or Clara Johnson at (662) 846-4234.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Dr. Glenell Lee-Pruitt&nbsp; The African American faculty, staff and students at Delta State University will serve as hosts to the 3rd Annual Black History Commemoration program entitled&nbsp; &ldquo;40 Years&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686","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"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41900,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions\/41900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}