{"id":348022,"date":"2026-09-16T04:14:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T04:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/348022\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T04:14:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T04:14:14","slug":"good-kids-manhattan-high-senior-helps-preserve-yuma-streets-black-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/348022\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Kids &#8211; Manhattan High senior helps preserve Yuma Street\u2019s Black history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) &#8211; A Manhattan High senior is being recognized in her community for her role in preserving Black history in Kansas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Ciera Williamson worked as an intern this summer for the Black Entrepreneurs of the Flint Hills. She helped make the second annual Yuma Street Cultural Festival a reality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The festival preserves the history of Yuma Street, a historically Black district in Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Williamson is also president of the Black Student Union at Manhattan High and vice president of student council for her class. She co-founded a Jesus club and is part of the school\u2019s spirit club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">As president of the Black Student Union, Williamson helps organize an annual poetry slam.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WIBW. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) &#8211; A Manhattan High senior is being recognized in her community for her role in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[130157,105131,130159,130158,130147,130149,130146,130148,130155,130156,75,84,18964,130152,130150,130151,83,9,24,63,126350,130154,130153],"class_list":["post-348022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-black-entrepreneurs-of-the-flint-hills","tag-black-history-kansas","tag-black-history-kansas-good-kids","tag-black-history-kansas-wibw","tag-ciera-williamson-good-kids","tag-ciera-williamson-kansas","tag-ciera-williamson-manhattan","tag-ciera-williamson-wibw","tag-good-kids-wibw-manhattan","tag-good-kids-wibw-riley-county","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-high-school","tag-manhattan-high-school-ciera-williamson","tag-manhattan-high-school-good-kids","tag-manhattan-high-school-wibw","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-yuma-street-cultural-festival","tag-yuma-street-cultural-festival-good-kids","tag-yuma-street-cultural-festival-wibw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348022","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=348022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}