{"id":5446,"date":"2025-05-27T22:26:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T03:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/?p=5446"},"modified":"2025-09-29T22:31:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T03:31:38","slug":"sps-black-student-union-graduation-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/2025\/05\/27\/sps-black-student-union-graduation-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"SPS Black Student Union Graduation Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was asked to introduce the student keynote speaker at this year&#8217;s CUNY SPS Black Student Union ceremony. This brought back memories of a similar evening many years ago when I graduated from college.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SPS Black Student Union Graduation Ceremony\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_uC4o2vtOjA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was asked to introduce the student keynote speaker at this year&#8217;s CUNY SPS Black Student Union ceremony. This brought back memories of a similar evening many years ago when I graduated from college.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[373,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cuny-sps","category-oberlin"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5447,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5446\/revisions\/5447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}