{"id":18949,"date":"2013-01-07T16:41:12","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T21:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=18949"},"modified":"2013-01-07T16:41:12","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T21:41:12","slug":"nevada-naacp-to-name-first-non-black-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=18949","title":{"rendered":"Nevada NAACP To Name First Non-Black President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RENO, NEVADA &#8212; <strong>Jeffrey Blanck,<\/strong> a civil rights attorney in Reno, Nev., has become the first non-Black leader of the Reno-Sparks NAACP in the branch\u2019s 66-year history, according to the group\u2019s web page.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blanck<\/strong> will be replacing outgoing <strong>President Lonnie Feemster<\/strong>, who has just completed his last of four two-year terms at the organization.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blanck\u2019s<\/strong> involvement with the local NAACP has long been established, with the lawyer serving as the second vice-president and legal redress chair. A 27-year veteran, <strong>Blanck<\/strong> was moved to practice law after being inspired by the Civil Rights Movement of the \u201960s, according to his website. In a brief statement, <strong>Blanck<\/strong> spoke to the diversity of the branch he is soon to helm.<\/p>\n<p>I am proud that our leadership and membership reflect the rich diversity of our community and our country,\u00a0 said <strong>Blanck<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RENO, NEVADA &#8212; Jeffrey Blanck, a civil rights attorney in Reno, Nev., has become the first non-Black leader of the Reno-Sparks NAACP in the branch\u2019s 66-year history, according to the group\u2019s web page. Blanck will be replacing outgoing President Lonnie Feemster, who has just completed his last of four two-year terms at the organization. Blanck\u2019s [&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-18949","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\/18949","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=18949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}