{"id":336367,"date":"2026-09-02T22:22:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T22:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/336367\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T22:22:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T22:22:49","slug":"yuma-street-cultural-festival-celebrates-manhattans-black-history-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/336367\/","title":{"rendered":"Yuma Street Cultural Festival celebrates Manhattan\u2019s Black history, community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) &#8211; You\u2019re invited to celebrate the Black history, culture and community of Manhattan\u2019s historic Yuma Street District.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The second annual Yuma Street Cultural Festival is Sunday, Sept. 6. Sheila Ellis-Glasper, founder of the Black Entrepreneurs of the Flint Hills; Cierra Williamsnon, a Manhattan High School student who is interning to assist with the event; and Dave Baker, the visionary behind the Yuma Street Cultural Center and former K-State baseball coach, visited Eye on NE Kansas with a preview.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The event will feature live DJs, performances, dancing, soul food, historical tours, a kids zone, vendors and more. Watch the interview to hear some of this year\u2019s new additions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Yuma Street Cultural Festival runs 2 to 8 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 6 at the Douglass Center Complex and the Historic Yuma St. District in Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">It is free. Donations will be accepted for the Yuma Street Cultural Center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">To learn more about Yuma Street and the festival, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackflinthills.com\/yuma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.blackflinthills.com\/yuma\" target=\"_blank\">this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WIBW. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) &#8211; You\u2019re invited to celebrate the Black history, culture and community of Manhattan\u2019s historic Yuma&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[99577,35603,13531,126352,75,84,83,2538,9,24,63,126353,126350,126351],"class_list":["post-336367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-black-culture","tag-black-history","tag-dancing","tag-dave-baker","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-music","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-sheila-ellis-glasper","tag-yuma-street-cultural-festival","tag-yuma-street-historic-district"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336367","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=336367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}