{"id":3232,"date":"2021-06-15T07:20:19","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T12:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/?p=3232"},"modified":"2021-06-15T07:20:19","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T12:20:19","slug":"juneteenth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/juneteenth\/","title":{"rendered":"Juneteenth book talk with Opal Lee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The city of Boulder will sponsor a talk with Opal Lee–the Grand Mother of Juneteenth.
At 94 years young–Opal Lee leads a campaign with Carmelo Anthony, Sean Combs, and\u00a0
Pharrell to make Juneteenth a\u00a0National Holiday.\u00a0\u00a0

This virtual talk happens–Saturday (June 19th–!0:00).\u00a0\u00a0
It will also be recorded and posted on youtube.
You can register for the program\u00a0HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harpercollins will publish Opal Lee’s\u00a0 poignant\u00a0picture book biography soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Opal<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NYT artist–Keturah Bobo is the illustrator.  The pictures are stunning.  
The text is lyrical and engaging.  And it includes a a red Juneteenth punch recipe
from Texan and famous Diva Chef–Angela Medearis. 
Will you pre-order the book HERE<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RISE AND SHINE!
IT’S JUNETEENTH TIME!<\/strong>
LET THE JOY BEGIN!<\/strong>
JUNETEENTH IS FOR EVERYONE.<\/strong>
JUNETEENTH IS YOU AND ME!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The city of Boulder will sponsor a talk with Opal Lee–the Grand Mother of Juneteenth.At 94 years young–Opal Lee leads a campaign with Carmelo Anthony, Sean Combs, and\u00a0Pharrell to make Juneteenth a\u00a0National Holiday.\u00a0\u00a0 This virtual talk happens–Saturday (June 19th–!0:00).\u00a0\u00a0It will … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":3233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[300,196,218],"class_list":["post-3232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ames-highlights","tag-blm","tag-holidays","tag-new-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/files\/2021\/06\/unnamed.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3232"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3235,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3232\/revisions\/3235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}