{"id":36768,"date":"2013-07-24T06:56:03","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T13:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=36768"},"modified":"2013-07-24T06:56:03","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T13:56:03","slug":"grio-tracy-martin-to-speak-at-1st-ever-meeting-of-the-congressional-caucus-on-black-men-and-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/07\/24\/grio-tracy-martin-to-speak-at-1st-ever-meeting-of-the-congressional-caucus-on-black-men-and-boys\/","title":{"rendered":"Grio: Tracy Martin to speak at 1st-ever meeting of the Congressional Caucus on Black Men and Boys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Congressional Caucus on Black Men and Boys will be holding its first-ever meeting on Wednesday and they have lined up a special guest.<\/p>\n<p>Tracy Martin, Travyon Martin\u2019s father, is scheduled to appear tomorrow to offer opening remarks. The main topic of the meeting will focus on \u201cThe Status of Black Males: Ensuring Our Boys Mature into Strong Men.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Martin will address this topic and leaves no doubt that  undoubtedly refer to the death of his 17-year-old son, which was the center of a firestorm of that sparked across the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Other notable speakers will also be in attendance, including MSNBC host and Georgetown University professor Michael Eric Dyson , former Congressman and NAACP President Kweisi Mfume and David J. Johns, the head of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans, according to a press release.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thegrio.com\/2013\/07\/24\/tracy-martin-to-speak-at-1st-ever-meeting-of-the-congressional-caucus-on-black-men-and-boys\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\nClick here for the full story.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Congressional Caucus on Black Men and Boys will be holding its first-ever meeting on Wednesday and they have lined up a special guest. Tracy Martin, Travyon Martin\u2019s father, is scheduled to appear tomorrow to offer opening remarks. The main topic of the meeting will focus on \u201cThe Status of Black Males: Ensuring Our Boys [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36769,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36768\/revisions\/36769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}