{"id":605,"date":"2017-06-18T22:10:42","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T02:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/memory\/?p=605"},"modified":"2017-09-19T15:48:55","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T19:48:55","slug":"a-very-important-letter-to-the-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/memory\/2017\/06\/18\/a-very-important-letter-to-the-editor\/","title":{"rendered":"A Very Important Letter to the Editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week on<em> Expanding the Ivory Tower<\/em>,\u00a0we reflect on a letter to the editor of\u00a0<em>The Collegian<\/em> published in 1976. The author of the letter, Wanda Starke, and then-president of the Student Organization for Black Awareness (SOBA) wrote in to critique white members of the university community for failing to participate in SOBA\u2019s celebration of Black History Week. This episode\u00a0considers what happens when people from marginalized groups get to speak to their\u00a0own experiences.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"720\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F328774358&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxwidth=720&#038;maxheight=1000\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week on Expanding the Ivory Tower,\u00a0we reflect on a letter to the editor of\u00a0The Collegian published in 1976. The author of the letter, Wanda Starke, and then-president of the Student Organization for Black Awareness (SOBA) wrote in to critique<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2928,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[64782,155,64783],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-expanding-the-ivory-tower","tag-podcast","tag-victoria-charles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/memory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/memory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/memory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/memory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2928"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/memory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/memory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/memory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/memory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/memory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}