{"id":29597,"date":"2026-02-03T09:13:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T14:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/?p=29597"},"modified":"2026-02-03T09:13:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T14:13:21","slug":"farley-celebrates-black-history-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/2026\/02\/03\/farley-celebrates-black-history-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Farley Celebrates Black History Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Farley Library celebrates Black History Month with a featured book display including<em> The Sword and the Shield <\/em>and<em> Queen of the Negro Leagues.\u00a0 <\/em>Check out these titles and more and celebrate Black History Month with Farley Library.\u00a0 Also see our social media posts\u00a0 highlighting the life and times of <a href=\"https:\/\/wuarchives.home.blog\/2026\/02\/02\/black-history-month-highlight-the-enduring-musical-legacy-of-wilkes-college-alumna-william-crowder-composer-of-man-against-the-sky\/\">William Crowder<\/a>, the first African American graduate of Wilkes College.\u00a0 Wilkes University Archives has had his musical score, <a href=\"https:\/\/omeka.wilkes.edu\/omeka\/document\/53492\"><em>Man Against the Sky<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em>digitized and available to listen to in full through our Omeka Digital Repository.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farley Library celebrates Black History Month with a featured book display including The Sword and the Shield and Queen of the Negro Leagues.\u00a0 Check out these titles and more and celebrate Black History Month with Farley Library.\u00a0 Also see our social media posts\u00a0 highlighting the life and times of William Crowder, the first African American&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/2026\/02\/03\/farley-celebrates-black-history-month\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Farley Celebrates Black History Month<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29596,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-staff","category-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29623,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29597\/revisions\/29623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}