{"id":23316,"date":"2023-02-24T08:30:58","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T13:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=23316"},"modified":"2026-02-27T10:54:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T15:54:36","slug":"black-history-month-jamarcus-gaston-seeks-out-the-stories-that-define-our-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/black-history-month-jamarcus-gaston-seeks-out-the-stories-that-define-our-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Black History Month: Jamarcus Gaston seeks out the stories that define our community"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/tag\/black-history-month-2023\/\">Furman celebrates Black History Month<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/tag\/black-history-month-2023\/\">Read more stories &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/em><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As part of <a href=\"https:\/\/greenvillejournal.com\/black-history-month\/jamarcus-gaston-seeks-out-the-stories-that-define-our-community\/\">Greenville Journal&#8217;s<\/a> Black History Month coverage, Vincent Harris of the Journal speaks to Furman University alumnus Jamarcus Gaston &#8217;07 (music and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/communication-studies\">communication studies<\/a>). Making a name for himself as the Upstate&#8217;s storyteller, Gaston is host of WSPA 7News&#8217; &#8220;Your Carolina,&#8221; which airs 9-10 a.m. Monday through Friday. \u201cEvery day that I get to sit at a desk at a television station on a live daily TV show where my voice is heard and I get to share my opinions, that\u2019s something that never gets old,\u201d he told Harris. \u201cThere\u2019s a quote that says, \u2018I am my ancestors\u2019 wildest dream,\u2019 and I really think they would find that to be true,&#8221; Gaston added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaston, a music and communication studies alumnus, is making a name for himself as the Upstate&#8217;s storyteller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":23318,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,51,6,39,1,1578],"tags":[641,2079,1337,1013,1907],"class_list":["post-23316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-communication-studies","category-in-the-news","category-music","category-uncategorized","category-wspa-7-news","tag-black-history-month","tag-black-history-month-2023","tag-storytelling","tag-upstate-south-carolina","tag-your-carolina"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41273,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23316\/revisions\/41273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}