{"id":164373,"date":"2019-02-13T09:00:20","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T15:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=164373"},"modified":"2019-02-14T16:24:12","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T22:24:12","slug":"black-history-museum-exhibit-coming-to-vcsu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=164373","title":{"rendered":"CANCELLED &#8211; Black History Museum exhibit, VCSU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-164374\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/SaffoldFred.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"161\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/SaffoldFred.jpg 161w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/SaffoldFred-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 161px) 100vw, 161px\" \/>Update&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>VCSU informs the public that the planned exhibit, \u201cA Tribute to the African-American Journey,\u201d\u2014 a traveling exhibit from the True Black History Museum in Troy, Mich.,\u00a0 has been cancelled due to weather-travel related issues.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Previously<\/p>\n<p>Valley City\u00a0 (VCSU) \u00a0\u201cA Tribute to the African-American Journey\u201d\u2014a traveling exhibit from the True Black History Museum in Troy, Michigan will be hosted in the Student Center lounge on the Valley City State University campus from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 13. That afternoon, museum founder Fred Saffold III will speak on the African-American experience at 12:30 p.m. in the VCSU Student Center Skoal Room.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibit features more than 150 artifacts and original documents dating from the late 1600s through the 21st century from historic figures such as Booker T. Washington, Rosa Parks, George Washington Carver, Angela Davis, Martin Luther King Jr., President Barack Obama, and many other African-Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Saffold, a retired Detroit police officer and instructor in the Wayne County Community College District, founded the True Black History Museum in 2010 \u201cto preserve the history of African-American people and to educate others of the many great contributions that African-Americans have made to humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The exhibit and Saffold\u2019s presentation, both open to the public free of charge, are sponsored by the Viking Campus Activities Board and VCSU Residence Life.<\/p>\n<p>More information about Saffold and the True Black History Museum can be found online at www.trueblackhistory.com.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update&#8230;. VCSU informs the public that the planned exhibit, \u201cA Tribute to the African-American Journey,\u201d\u2014 a traveling exhibit from the True Black History Museum in Troy, Mich.,\u00a0 has been cancelled due to weather-travel related issues. &nbsp; Previously Valley City\u00a0 (VCSU) \u00a0\u201cA Tribute to the African-American Journey\u201d\u2014a traveling exhibit from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":164715,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164373"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164712,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164373\/revisions\/164712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/164715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}