{"id":23977,"date":"2023-03-23T11:46:04","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T15:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=23977"},"modified":"2023-03-23T11:48:42","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T15:48:42","slug":"hasidic-jewish-rapper-shares-his-story-through-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/hasidic-jewish-rapper-shares-his-story-through-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Hasidic Jewish rapper shares his story through music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nissim Black, an African American Hasidic Jewish rapper, will present a free concert Thursday, March 23, at 8 p.m. in McAlister Auditorium on the campus of Furman University. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/video\/2023\/03\/23\/hasidic-jewish-rapper-coming-greenville-shares-his-story-through-music\/\">FOX Carolina<\/a> caught up with Black who appeared as a guest in a conversation March 22 hosted by Furman&#8217;s Judith Williams, assistant professor of anthropology. Black discussed the intersection of faith, gender and race, in his faith journey from Islam to Christianity, to Judaism.<\/p>\n<p>For Thursday&#8217;s concert, Black hopes people leave the event &#8220;inspired to do positive things.&#8221; The former gang member told FOX, &#8220;Just the way a story begins, doesn&#8217;t mean it has to end that way.&#8221; Doors open at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former gang member Nissim Black speaks about his faith journey and presents concert Thursday, March 23, at 8 p.m. in McAlister Auditorium. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":23980,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,1569,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anthropology","category-fox-carolina","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23977","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=23977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}