{"id":12540,"date":"2020-01-02T14:14:37","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T19:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=12540"},"modified":"2023-09-24T15:42:40","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T19:42:40","slug":"mike-glenn-exhibit-on-african-american-literacy-opens-jan-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=12540","title":{"rendered":"Mike Glenn exhibit on African American literacy opens Jan. 4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>DECATUR &#8212; The DeKalb County Public Library will host Mike &#8220;Stinger&#8221; Glenn&#8217;s &#8220;Once He Learns How to Read: A Legacy of Literacy&#8221; exhibit Jan. 4 through Jan. 22, at the Decatur Library, located at 215 Sycamore Street, Decatur, GA 30030. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mike\nGlenn, a former NBA player and current broadcaster for &#8220;Hawks Live,&#8221;\nthe pre-game show for the <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"\/city\/Atlanta\"   title=\"Atlanta\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">Atlanta<\/a> Hawks, has collected thousands of rare books,\nnewspapers and magazines that document African American history and culture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nexhibit will feature slave narratives, books and newspapers from the 1770s,\nincluding the first printed account of the Battle of Bunker Hill that was\nprinted in 1775 in England.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An opening reception will be held on Tuesday, Jan. 7, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Funding for the exhibit is provided by the DeKalb Library Foundation, City of Decatur and the Decatur Education Foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DECATUR &#8212; The DeKalb County Public Library will host Mike &#8220;Stinger&#8221; Glenn&#8217;s &#8220;Once He Learns How to Read: A Legacy of Literacy&#8221; exhibit Jan. 4 through Jan. 22, at the Decatur Library, located at 215 Sycamore Street, Decatur, GA 30030. Mike Glenn, a former NBA player and current broadcaster for &#8220;Hawks Live,&#8221; the pre-game show [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}