{"id":28491,"date":"2010-08-15T14:53:15","date_gmt":"2010-08-15T19:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=28491"},"modified":"2010-08-17T02:40:55","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T07:40:55","slug":"naacp-weekend-banquet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=28491","title":{"rendered":"NAACP Weekend Banquet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=28537\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-28537\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2010\/08\/NAACP-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"NAACP logo\" width=\"120\" height=\"123\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-28537\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTYLER &#8212; The NAACP remains as relevant today as ever, according to Marlin, Texas, City Manager William McDonald.   The Tyler native keynoted his hometown&#8217;s NAACP Freedom Fund Banquet over the weekend. One key area, says McDonald: economic empowerment. McDonald said there&#8217;s a &#8220;new Jim Crow&#8221; at work in America, in which too many young African-Americans are told they can&#8217;t succeed.    McDonald commented that in order for young people to compete in a truly global marketplace, &#8220;we have an important role to lay&#8230;during these difficult economic times to try to help individuals gain a quality education.&#8221;   He added, &#8220;If we have an opportunity to work together and become entrepreneurs, there&#8217;s certainly a benefit to the entire community.&#8221;    McDonald also says it&#8217;s important to look to the future while remembering civil rights gains of the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; The NAACP remains as relevant today as ever, according to Marlin, Texas, City Manager William McDonald. The Tyler native keynoted his hometown&#8217;s NAACP Freedom Fund Banquet over the weekend. One key area, says McDonald: economic empowerment. McDonald said there&#8217;s a &#8220;new Jim Crow&#8221; at work in America, in which too many young African-Americans &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=28491\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NAACP Weekend Banquet<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-06 23:45:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28491"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28809,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28491\/revisions\/28809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}