{"id":16404,"date":"2012-08-27T13:16:48","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T17:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=16404"},"modified":"2012-08-26T13:58:44","modified_gmt":"2012-08-26T17:58:44","slug":"foreclosure-looming-for-one-of-americas-oldest-hbcus-morris-brown-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=16404","title":{"rendered":"Foreclosure Looming For One Of America\u2019s Oldest HBCUs: Morris Brown College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA \u2014 One of the nation\u2019s oldest black colleges is facing foreclosure next month, and an auction of assets is set for Sept. 4.<\/p>\n<p>The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that enrollment at Morris Brown College in Atlanta is down to about 50 students. In the past, the university has served more than 3,000 students.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the college is facing foreclosure after investors called $13 million worth of bonds tied to the college.<\/p>\n<p>Former Atlanta City Councilman and Morris Brown graduate <strong>Derrick Boazman<\/strong> called the development \u201cheartbreaking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The school is planning a prayer vigil Saturday, where plans to move the school forward will be discussed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Benjamin Harrison<\/strong> is a spokesman for the 6th District African Methodist Episcopal Church, which oversees the school. He says officials will talk about reorganizing and restructuring as well as finances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA \u2014 One of the nation\u2019s oldest black colleges is facing foreclosure next month, and an auction of assets is set for Sept. 4. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that enrollment at Morris Brown College in Atlanta is down to about 50 students. In the past, the university has served more than 3,000 students. Officials said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}