{"id":825042,"date":"2026-11-05T14:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T14:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/825042\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T14:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T14:34:10","slug":"kanya-king-to-be-honoured-with-stone-laid-at-queens-park-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/825042\/","title":{"rendered":"Kanya King to be honoured with stone laid at Queen&#8217;s Park school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A commemorative stone is to be laid in London in honour of the late Mobo founder Kanya King, to mark the 30th anniversary of the music ceremony.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Mobo awards music ceremony &#8211; which celebrates black music, culture and excellence from the UK and abroad &#8211; was launched by King in 1996.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Through Mobo, King is credited with playing a major role in bringing black music and culture to the mainstream in the UK. King died this summer from colon cancer at the age of 57.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Paving the Way stone will be unveiled on 18 November at her former school, Queens Park Community College in Queen&#8217;s Park, north-west London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A commemorative stone is to be laid in London in honour of the late Mobo founder Kanya King,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":825043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-825042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=825042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/825043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}