{"id":619,"date":"2020-10-16T16:54:10","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T16:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kenner.dotsandspaces.uk\/blog\/?p=619"},"modified":"2020-10-23T06:20:42","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T06:20:42","slug":"highlighting-black-intellectuals-and-artists-around-the-world-sonia-sanchez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenner.dotsandspaces.uk\/blog\/uncategorized\/highlighting-black-intellectuals-and-artists-around-the-world-sonia-sanchez\/","title":{"rendered":"Highlighting Black Intellectuals and Artists Around the World: Sonia Sanchez"},"content":{"rendered":"\nJoin us in celebrating amazing Black intellectuals and artists around the world! Today we are introducing Sonia Sanchez, a leading figure in the Black Arts movement.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kenner.dotsandspaces.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/kenner.dotsandspaces.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kenner.dotsandspaces.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/kenner.dotsandspaces.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/kenner.dotsandspaces.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/kenner.dotsandspaces.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/kenner.dotsandspaces.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/kenner.dotsandspaces.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nSonia Sanchez is an American poet, writer, and professor. She was a leading figure in the Black Arts Movement and has authored over a dozen books of poetry, as well as short stories, critical essays, plays, and children&#8217;s books. She is also the recipient of both the Robert Frost Medal for distinguished lifetime service to American poetry and the Langston Hughes Poetry Award. Her works aim to educate and advocate for the black community through writing.\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kenner.dotsandspaces.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/kenner.dotsandspaces.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/3-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-621\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kenner.dotsandspaces.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/3-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/kenner.dotsandspaces.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/3-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/kenner.dotsandspaces.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/3-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/kenner.dotsandspaces.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/3-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/kenner.dotsandspaces.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/3-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/kenner.dotsandspaces.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/3.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a>\n\n<figcaption>Learn more about Sonia Sanchez on https:\/\/soniasanchez.net\/ and on Twitter @PoetSanchez.<\/figcaption>\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join us in celebrating amazing Black intellectuals and artists around the world! Today we are introducing Sonia Sanchez, a leading figure in the Black&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-blackartists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenner.dotsandspaces.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenner.dotsandspaces.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenner.dotsandspaces.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenner.dotsandspaces.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenner.dotsandspaces.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kenner.dotsandspaces.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":623,"href":"https:\/\/kenner.dotsandspaces.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions\/623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenner.dotsandspaces.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenner.dotsandspaces.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenner.dotsandspaces.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}