{"id":30479,"date":"2024-03-01T13:05:09","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T18:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=30479"},"modified":"2024-03-01T13:06:48","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T18:06:48","slug":"purple-diamonds-shine-at-furman-sports-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/purple-diamonds-shine-at-furman-sports-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Purple Diamonds shine at Furman sports events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During Black History Month, Carmine Gemei of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/2024\/02\/28\/groundbreaking-group-purple-diamonds-empower-paladins\/\">FOX Carolina Sports<\/a> caught up with Furman University&#8217;s Purple Diamonds, a dance troupe that entertains at Furman football and basketball games. The group debuted on the Paladin football field in 2022 and continues to show off its HBCU-inspired, majorette-style moves in 65 &#8220;stands&#8221; it performs in front of adoring fans. Learn more from the members of the Purple Diamonds and from Abijah Leamon &#8217;24, president of the Student Diversity Council, who spoke about the importance of the group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman dance troupe Purple Diamonds was the brainchild of suitemates two years ago. They are still going strong, entertaining throngs of fans at Furman basketball and football games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":30481,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,70,2604,6,39,27],"tags":[641,2606,124,2605],"class_list":["post-30479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","category-diversity-equity-and-inclusion","category-fox-carolina-sports","category-in-the-news","category-music","category-student-life","tag-black-history-month","tag-black-representation","tag-dei","tag-hbcu-dance"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30479","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=30479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}