{"id":4692,"date":"2018-02-08T17:04:09","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T00:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/?p=4692"},"modified":"2018-02-08T17:05:37","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T00:05:37","slug":"black-history-month-honors-achievements-shares-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/2018\/02\/08\/black-history-month-honors-achievements-shares-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Black History Month honors achievements, shares stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Originally printed in: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orangemedianetwork.com\/daily_barometer\/\">The Daily Barometer<\/a>, an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orangemedianetwork.com\/\">Orange Media Network<\/a> publication<\/p>\n<ul class=\"list-inline\">\n<li>By Sydney Sullivan, News Contributor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\">On Tuesday Jan. 29, the Black History Month celebrations were kicked off with the Black Excellence Celebration, an event recognizing black faculty and staff who have gone out of their way to help the black community and the BCC. The staff recognized at this year\u2019s event were Dorian Smith, Jamar Bean, Jason Thomas, Micknai Arefaine, <a href=\"http:\/\/loesgenlab.org\/people.html\">Elizabeth Namagoba<\/a> and Shelley Moon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">From celebratory events like Black Excellence to Roll Bounce Skate Night in Eugene, the month is full of engaging opportunities for everyone to participate in.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orangemedianetwork.com\/daily_barometer\/black-history-month-honors-achievements-shares-stories\/article_b889948e-0a33-11e8-bdc1-33efc9c8f60d.html\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4693\" class=\"wp-caption thumbnail alignleft\" style=\"width: 601px;\">\n    <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/files\/2018\/02\/CAD_8380.jpg.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4693\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/files\/2018\/02\/CAD_8380.jpg-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"601\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1046\/files\/2018\/02\/CAD_8380.jpg-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1046\/files\/2018\/02\/CAD_8380.jpg-768x513.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1046\/files\/2018\/02\/CAD_8380.jpg-1024x684.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1046\/files\/2018\/02\/CAD_8380.jpg-400x267.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" \/><\/a>\n    <figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chemistry Graduate Student, Elizabeth Kawessa Namagoba receiving the Black Excellence Award. Photo Courtesy of: Logan Howell, Orange Media Network<\/figcaption>\n    <\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally printed in: The Daily Barometer, an Orange Media Network publication By Sydney Sullivan, News Contributor On Tuesday Jan. 29, the Black History Month celebrations were kicked off with the Black Excellence Celebration, an event recognizing black faculty and staff who have gone out of their way to help the black community and the BCC.&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/2018\/02\/08\/black-history-month-honors-achievements-shares-stories\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4692"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4696,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4692\/revisions\/4696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}