{"id":3732,"date":"2011-02-21T16:58:35","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T21:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=3732"},"modified":"2011-02-21T16:58:35","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T21:58:35","slug":"city-of-tampa-host-annual-black-history-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=3732","title":{"rendered":"CITY OF TAMPA HOST ANNUAL BLACK HISTORY CELEBRATION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On Wednesday, February 16th, the City of Tampa Black History Committee held their 23rd Annual Black History Celebration. The event was held at the Tampa Convention Center. This year&#8217;s theme was &#8216;Enter to Learn, Depart to Serve: The Importance of Historically Black Colleges and Universities.&#8217; The keynote speaker for the event was Dr. Walter L. Smith, former president of Florida A &amp; M University. Edward Waters Concert Choir provided the entertainment. Among those in attendance at the event were from left to right: Tampa Fire Chief Thomas Forward, Ms. Lenoir Russell, Ed Johnson, East Tampa Development Manager; Dr. Walter Smith, keynote speaker; Mrs. Barbara Smith, Rev. Thomas Scott, Chairman of Tampa City Council, Frank Crum, CTTV Producer\/Director; Ms. Tonja Brickhouse, Director of Solid Waste; and Rod Carter, Channel 8 News Anchor. (Photograph by Lomax McIntyre).<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, February 16th, the City of Tampa Black History Committee held their 23rd Annual Black History Celebration. The event was held at the Tampa Convention Center. This year&#8217;s theme was &#8216;Enter to Learn, Depart to Serve: The Importance of Historically Black Colleges and Universities.&#8217; The keynote speaker for the event was Dr. Walter L. [&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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-articles","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3732","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=3732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}