{"id":1233,"date":"2009-12-02T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/libtest\/2009\/12\/02\/the_blockson_collection_presen\/"},"modified":"2012-10-15T15:30:18","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T15:30:18","slug":"the_blockson_collection_presen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/libraryprograms\/2009\/12\/02\/the_blockson_collection_presen\/","title":{"rendered":"December 2, The Blockson Collection Presents: John Brown in the African Mind, A Conversation on the Legacy of Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>December 2 2:00 p.m. Charles L. Blockson Afro American Collection Sullivan Hall, 1330 W. Berks Street<\/strong>  The Blockson Collection, in conjunction with Larry Robbins and the bookstore Moonstone, presents a conversation on the legacy of John Brown. This discussion, <em>John Brown in the African Mind<\/em>, will feature renowned scholars Charles L. Blockson, founder of the Blockson Collection, and Molefi K. Asante of Temple\u2019s African American Studies Department.  <strong>Charles L. Blockson <\/strong>is a renowned historian and bibliophile from Norristown, PA. He has dedicated his life to collecting and preserving African and African American history, arts and culture. His life&#8217;s work created this rich, historical collection at Temple, which opened in 1984.  <strong>Molefi K. Asante<\/strong> is a Professor in the Department of African American Studies at Temple University. He  is the author of seventy books, including <em>African American History: A Journey of Liberation<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 2 2:00 p.m. Charles L. Blockson Afro American Collection Sullivan Hall, 1330 W. Berks Street The Blockson Collection, in conjunction with Larry Robbins and the bookstore Moonstone, presents a conversation on the legacy of John Brown. This discussion, John &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/libraryprograms\/2009\/12\/02\/the_blockson_collection_presen\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":955,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3PKHL-jT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/libraryprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/libraryprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/libraryprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/libraryprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/955"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/libraryprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/libraryprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/libraryprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/libraryprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/libraryprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}