{"id":10168,"date":"2010-06-16T09:43:45","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T13:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=10168"},"modified":"2010-06-16T09:43:45","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T13:43:45","slug":"atlanta-celebration-of-the-african-child-spurs-african-american-joint-efforts-global-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=10168","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta celebration of the African Child spurs African-American joint efforts, global movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ATLANTA &#8212; <\/strong>Today, June 16, 2010, a public announcement will be held at 12:15pm in the auditorium of The B.E.S.T Academy, 1890 D.L. Hollowell Parkway, Atlanta, GA 30318 by Go Dae June 16:\u00c2\u00a0 The Celebration Of The African Child, Inc.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The public announcement will highlight various African-African American joint efforts spurred by Atlanta-based initiatives and organizations involved with celebrating the African holiday on June 16th known as The Day of the African Child.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An African Union (AU) holiday, the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Day Of The African Child\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is a commemoration of the death of 150 school children, massacred in Soweto, South Africa during 1976.\u00c2\u00a0 On June 16, 1991, the African Union declared this a day of national celebration to be observed in every country in Africa.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is an international event throughout the continent of Africa, being brought to Atlanta through the local nonprofit Go Dae June 16:\u00c2\u00a0 The Celebration Of The African Child, Inc.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Executive Dir. Mary Adoga\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s goal is to bring the global spotlight for the event to the United States.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Having just spoke to my fellow Sierra Leoneans live this morning through United Nations Radio in Sierra Leone, I can confirm that the excitement in Africa about what we are doing in Atlanta with celebrating The African Child is immense \u00e2\u20ac\u201c because it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s never been highlighted this way before in the US.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A primary joint effort spawned by Go Dae June 16\u00e2\u20ac\u201c the Go Dae Africa Resolution &#8212; will be introduced\u00c2\u00a0 at the public announcement as a part of a larger Go Dae Africa initiative.\u00c2\u00a0 A primary intention of the Go Dae Africa initiative is to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153bridge the divide\u00e2\u20ac\u009d between Africans and African-Americans.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Go Dae June 16\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is krio for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Go There On June 16<sup>th\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/sup><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Go Dae June 16:\u00c2\u00a0 The Celebration Of The African Child has established its 501 (c) (3) nonprofit status with the IRS and is incorporated in the state of Georgia.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA &#8212; Today, June 16, 2010, a public announcement will be held at 12:15pm in the auditorium of The B.E.S.T Academy, 1890 D.L. Hollowell Parkway, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":75801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[671,1],"tags":[2730,3400],"class_list":["post-10168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-uncategorized","tag-day-of-the-african-child","tag-go-dae-june-16"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}