{"id":38000,"date":"2016-02-03T14:45:10","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T14:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/?p=38000"},"modified":"2016-02-18T18:45:42","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T18:45:42","slug":"acc-hosts-gospel-extravaganza-in-honor-of-black-history-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2016\/02\/03\/acc-hosts-gospel-extravaganza-in-honor-of-black-history-month\/","title":{"rendered":"ACC hosts Gospel Extravaganza in honor of Black History Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Community College (ACC) recognizes Black History Month with its 16th annual Gospel Extravaganza, featuring Central Texas gospel artists, from 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday, February 13, at Eastview Campus, Building 8000, Room 8500 (3401 Webberville Rd.).<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_38001\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38001\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-38001\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2016\/02\/IMG_3338-300x241.jpg\" alt=\"Gospel Extravaganza\" width=\"300\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2016\/02\/IMG_3338-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2016\/02\/IMG_3338-768x617.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2016\/02\/IMG_3338-1024x823.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2016\/02\/IMG_3338-150x121.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-38001\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gospel Extravaganza<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThis is a celebration and collaboration with local artists to showcase praise in song, dance, poetry, rap and instrumental format,\u201d says Loretta Edelen, ACC community outreach director. \u201cThe gospel music highlights the historical significance the church has played in the struggle for equal rights and the spiritual message that has served to inspire and motivate our community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The event includes performances by Jordyn Marie Johnson, Joshua Ross, Evangelist Ella Nation, CCYSTA, D2C New Generations, Brother Lester Hunter, MykeJay and more.<\/p>\n<p>The extravaganza is free and open to the public. For questions contact Loretta Edelen at <a href=\"mailto:edelen@austincc.edu\">edelen@austincc.edu<\/a> or 512-223-5106.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Community College (ACC) recognizes Black History Month with its 16th annual Gospel Extravaganza, featuring Central Texas gospel artists, from 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday, February 13, at Eastview Campus, Building 8000, Room 8500 (3401 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2016\/02\/03\/acc-hosts-gospel-extravaganza-in-honor-of-black-history-month\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3934,"featured_media":37668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,17],"tags":[769,767,768,83,770],"class_list":["post-38000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-and-community","category-current-students","category-news-and-announcements","tag-artists","tag-black-history-month","tag-gospel-extravaganza","tag-music","tag-rights"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3934"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}