{"id":165829,"date":"2026-02-23T17:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T17:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/165829\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T17:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T17:09:08","slug":"alcee-hastings-civil-rights-award-presented-to-fort-lauderdale-pastor-for-his-commitment-to-the-community-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/165829\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcee Hastings Civil Rights award presented to Fort Lauderdale pastor for his commitment to the community &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; It was a high honor for a Fort Lauderdale pastor who was recognized for his commitment to the community.<\/p>\n<p>Cameras rolled at New Mount Olive Baptist Church on Sunday as U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz presented the Rev. Dr. Marcus Davidson with the Alcee L. Hastings Civil Rights &amp; Social Justice Leadership Award.<\/p>\n<p>The prestigious honor is given to Floridians who demonstrate superior civic engagement and a commitment to supporting the South Florida community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCreating and bestowing this award was all about making sure that we can celebrate folks who are really in the trenches, in the streets every day, in the community every day fighting to advance human and civil rights,\u201d said Wasserman Schultz.<\/p>\n<p>The award serves to keep the <a href=\"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/news\/politics\/congressman-alcee-hastings-dead-at-the-age-of-84\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">late congressman Alcee Hastings<\/a>\u2018 legacy alive during Black History Month.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p>\tJoin our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; It was a high honor for a Fort Lauderdale pastor who was recognized&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":{"0":"post-165829","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-lauderdale","8":"tag-fort-lauderdale","9":"tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","10":"tag-fort-lauderdale-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165829","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=165829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}