{"id":301529,"date":"2026-07-21T06:10:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T06:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/301529\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T06:10:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T06:10:19","slug":"brooklyn-park-celebrates-nigerian-heritage-with-igbofest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/301529\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Park celebrates Nigerian heritage with IgboFest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The free family festival will take place on Aug. 8 with food and performances. <\/p>\n<p>BROOKLYN PARK, Minn. \u2014 Celebrate and learn more about Nigerian heritage with IgboFest!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Igbo is the third most populous ethnicity in Nigeria and has a large population in the Twin Cities area.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The celebration will kick off with a gala on Aug. 7 at the Brooklyn Park Activity Center. Then on Aug. 8, there will be a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhcc.edu\/news\/igbofest-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">free family festival<\/a> at North Hennepin Community College. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Umunne Cultural Association has been hosting the festival for 31 years. The event will include food, performances and more.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The free family festival will take place on Aug. 8 with food and performances. BROOKLYN PARK, Minn. \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-301529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}