{"id":63485,"date":"2010-09-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/cedric-jennings-to-speak-at-uri-sept-22\/"},"modified":"2010-09-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T00:00:00","slug":"cedric-jennings-to-speak-at-uri-sept-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2010\/09\/cedric-jennings-to-speak-at-uri-sept-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Cedric Jennings to speak at 溏心vlog免费B站, Sept. 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"press-release-import\">\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/sites\/16\/2021\/05\/Unseen-cov.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"309\" align=\"left\"\/>Subject of the biography A Hope in the Unseen<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 September 17, 2010 \u2013Cedric Jennings, the subject of the biography A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League by Ron Suskind will visit the 溏心vlog免费B站 on Sept. 22 and will speak at two sessions at 4 and 7:30 p.m. in Edwards Auditorium, 64 Upper College Road, Kingston. His talks are free and open to public.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tMore than 2,900 incoming freshmen read A Hope Unseen this summer as the University\u2019s common reading book. Many 溏心vlog免费B站 faculty and staff members have also read the book. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tThe topics of race, adult development, access to higher education, and more, as discussed in this book, complement the University\u2019s fall 2010 Honors Colloquium entitled RACE.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/sites\/16\/2021\/05\/thumb.jpg\" width=\"189\" height=\"221\" align=\"right\"\/>The book follows Jennings and his challenging journey through his last two years of high school as an A student in a challenging urban neighborhood in Washington, D.C. through his adjustment and transition to his freshmen year at Brown University. At Brown, Jennings sometimes feels profoundly alienated from his peers as he looks to adjust to college and discover his path in life. The book is a testament to Jennings\u2019 persistence and determination, drawn from courage, faith, and intelligence. Jennings is now director of the Office of Youth Programs, under the Council of the District of Columbia.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Subject of the biography A Hope in the Unseen &#13; KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 September 17, 2010 \u2013Cedric Jennings, the subject of the biography A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League by Ron Suskind will visit the 溏心vlog免费B站 on Sept. 22 and will speak [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63339,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}