{"id":221797,"date":"2026-06-18T00:13:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T00:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/221797\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T00:13:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T00:13:41","slug":"walking-in-black-history-tour-heads-for-alabama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/221797\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking in Black History Tour heads for Alabama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Local kids are headed to the southern part of the country for the annual Urban Erie Community Development Corporation&#8217;s Walking in Black History Tour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The tour is an initiative to immerse Erie area children in Black American history by visiting several major sites in Alabama including Selma, Montgomery and Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:Erie VA Medical Center hosts third annual Juneteenth celebration;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\/news\/local-news\/erie-va-medical-center-hosts-third-annual-juneteenth-celebration\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" class=\"promo-link__link\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Erie VA Medical Center hosts third annual Juneteenth celebration\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The goal is to not only teach them about American history, but to also encourage values such as bravery, resilience and confidence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I think it&#8217;s important because you want to learn more about your roots and your culture and the type of things that happened to you in the past,&#8221; said Zadell Silva.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I&#8217;m excited to see the 16th Street Baptist Church. I like all the painted glass,&#8221; said Lincoln Dickerson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In addition to visiting historical monuments, the kids will also get to see a parade on Juneteenth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Local kids are headed to the southern part of the country for the annual Urban Erie Community Development&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[21271,12910,96576,136,138,137],"class_list":["post-221797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-american-history","tag-black-history","tag-community-development-corporation","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221797","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=221797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}