{"id":5497,"date":"2023-02-24T15:03:55","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T21:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/hpnl\/?p=5497"},"modified":"2023-04-16T16:53:42","modified_gmt":"2023-04-16T21:53:42","slug":"wand-tv-reported-on-hpnls-blaxtravaganza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/hpnl\/blog\/wand-tv-reported-on-hpnls-blaxtravaganza\/","title":{"rendered":"WAND TV Reported on HPNL&#8217;s &#8220;Blaxtravaganza&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WAND TV released a news report about HPNL&#8217;s &#8220;Blaxtravaganza&#8221; event taking place March 2-8th.<\/p>\n<p>URBANA, Ill (WAND) &#8211; The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.library.illinois.edu\/hpnl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">History, Philosophy, and Newspaper Library at the University of Illinois<\/a>\u00a0will host a Blaxtravaganza which will highlight the talents of faculty members.<\/p>\n<p>Event organizer Courtney Becks says the goal is to highlight research, creativity, and brilliance.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to make sure that people were aware of their work and kind of create a platform for what they\u2019re doing,\u201d said Becks.<\/p>\n<p>Professor David Wright will kick off the event by reading part of his novel &#8216;Black Cloud Rising&#8217;. Other events will include more readings, workshops, and performances.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m looking at it through the lens of race and class. Gender to a certain extent. But the thing that I&#8217;m trying to trouble or get at is complicating our understanding of Americanness,\u201d\u00a0said Wright.<\/p>\n<p>The news report can be viewed on the WAND TV website: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wandtv.com\/news\/history-philosophy-and-newspaper-library-set-to-host-blaxtravaganza\/article_47782c08-b30a-11ed-9a01-7ff311ac5ee0.html\">History, Philosophy, and Newspaper Library set to host Blaxtravaganza | Top Stories | wandtv.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WAND TV released a news report about HPNL&#8217;s &#8220;Blaxtravaganza&#8221; event taking place March 2-8th. URBANA, Ill (WAND) &#8211; The\u00a0History, Philosophy, and Newspaper Library at the University of Illinois\u00a0will host a Blaxtravaganza which will highlight the talents of faculty members. Event organizer Courtney Becks says the goal is to highlight research, creativity, and brilliance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/hpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/hpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/hpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/hpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/hpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5497"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/hpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5530,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/hpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5497\/revisions\/5530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/hpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/hpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/hpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}