{"id":86917,"date":"2023-06-09T18:44:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T18:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/?p=86917"},"modified":"2023-06-12T19:47:23","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T19:47:23","slug":"join-us-for-a-juneteenth-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2023\/06\/join-us-for-a-juneteenth-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Join us for a Juneteenth celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>June 9, 2023<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Juneteenth&nbsp;National Independence Day, which officially became a federal holiday in 2021, commemorates the end of slavery in the United States and is considered the longest-running African American holiday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please join President Marc B. Parlange and the Office of Community, Equity and Diversity to honor this historical time with a&nbsp;celebration&nbsp;including cultural food, music, games, and a short speaking program. In case of inclement weather, the event will be held at the Memorial Union Ballroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Monday, June 19, 2023<br>Noon\u20132 p.m.<br>President&#8217;s Residence Lawn<br>56 Upper College Road<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSfeMex2FXWflqyFP-Ho6Kh5CgnJ9ux_6g7UaQsXcIFOJpCwfA\/viewform\">Please RSVP by Wednesday, June 14<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 9, 2023 Juneteenth&nbsp;National Independence Day, which officially became a federal holiday in 2021, commemorates the end of slavery in the United States and is considered the longest-running African American holiday. Please join President Marc B. Parlange and the Office of Community, Equity and Diversity to honor this historical time with a&nbsp;celebration&nbsp;including cultural food, music, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1866,1],"tags":[1857,1858,1856],"class_list":["post-86917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-message","category-uncategorized","tag-audience-faculty","tag-audience-staff","tag-audience-students"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86917","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\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86917"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86922,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86917\/revisions\/86922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}