{"id":127538,"date":"2026-03-02T16:51:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T16:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/127538\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T16:51:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T16:51:38","slug":"booker-t-washington-center-hosts-black-history-month-event-local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/127538\/","title":{"rendered":"Booker T. Washington Center Hosts Black History Month Event | Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Black History Month comes to a close, the Booker T. Washington Center held an event to commemorate the month.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"booker t.png\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>The event was held at the community center. It featured speakers, booths, entertainment, and vendors.<\/p>\n<p>It was a chance for people to learn and appreciate their culture and educate children.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Daria Devlin was one of the guest speakers.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of the event was to leave people feeling filled with pride, joy, and a renewed spirit of resilience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Black History Month comes to a close, the Booker T. Washington Center held an event to commemorate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[47998,59419,524,136,138,137,12644,5609,13412,94],"class_list":["post-127538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-black-history-month","tag-booker-t-washington-center","tag-community","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-erie-pa","tag-event","tag-heritage","tag-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}