{"id":107615,"date":"2026-01-06T14:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T14:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/107615\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T14:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T14:42:10","slug":"jacksonville-to-host-annual-african-american-read-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/107615\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville to host annual African American Read-In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"953\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-05-154120.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-103106\"  \/>Jacksonville will host the annual African American Read-in on Feb. 1. <\/p>\n<p>Jacksonville will kick off Black History Month with an afternoon of inspiration and celebration at the African American Read-In.<\/p>\n<p>Now in it\u2019s 22nd year, the read-in celebrates culture, creativity, and the power of reading together.<\/p>\n<p>The program is scheduled for 2-4 p.m. on Feb. 1 at the Jack Amyette Recreation Center, 825 South Drive, where after-school students will share poems, literature and artistic works created by African American authors.<\/p>\n<p>Entertainment and light refreshments will be served following the ceremony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacksonville will host the annual African American Read-in on Feb. 1. Jacksonville will kick off Black History Month&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[48241,55150,113,116,118,117,12343],"class_list":["post-107615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-black-history-month","tag-culture-and-history","tag-education","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-onslow-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}