{"id":8646,"date":"2019-05-24T20:08:58","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T20:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2020\/02\/12\/furman-university-to-honor-first-black-student\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:32:01","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:32:01","slug":"furman-university-to-honor-first-black-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-university-to-honor-first-black-student\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman University to honor first black student"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University has voted unanimously to\u00a0erect a statue in\u00a0honor of Joseph Vaughn, the university&#8217;s first African American student, and review its mission and vision with an eye toward\u00a0inclusivity. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colorlines.com\/articles\/furman-university-honor-first-black-student\">COLORLINES<\/a> reported on the statement issued from the Furman Board of Trustees, which approved recommendations made by its Special Committee on Slavery and Justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University has voted unanimously to\u00a0erect a statue in\u00a0honor of Joseph Vaughn, the university&#8217;s first African American student, and review its mission and vision with an eye toward\u00a0inclusivity. COLORLINES reported [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":8647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diversity-equity-and-inclusion","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8646","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=8646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}