{"id":364,"date":"2010-02-27T09:12:50","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T17:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/?p=364"},"modified":"2010-02-27T09:12:50","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T17:12:50","slug":"fifty-years-of-black-history-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/fifty-years-of-black-history-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifty Years of Black History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/search?q=Black+history+in+the+21st+century&amp;go=&amp;form=msnhal\"><strong>The First Decade of the 21st Century<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>2000<\/strong> &#8212; July, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/search?q=venus%20williams&amp;mkt=en-us&amp;FORM=msnhal\"><strong>Venus Williams<\/strong><\/a> becomes the first black woman to win the Women&#8217;s Singles title at Wimbledon since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/search?q=Althea%20Gibson&amp;mkt=en-us&amp;FORM=msnhal\"><strong>Althea Gibson<\/strong><\/a> in 1957 and 1958.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2002<\/strong> &#8212; March 24, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/search?q=halle%20berry&amp;mkt=en-us&amp;FORM=msnhal\"><strong>Halle Berry<\/strong><\/a> becomes the first African-American female to win Academy Award for Best Actress; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/search?q=denzel%20washington&amp;mkt=en-us&amp;FORM=msnhal\"><strong>Denzel Washington<\/strong><\/a> becomes the second African-American male to win Best Actor.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2005<\/strong> &#8212; January 26, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/search?q=condoleezza%20rice&amp;mkt=en-us&amp;FORM=msnhal\"><strong>Condoleezza Rice<\/strong><\/a> becomes the first black female secretary of state. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/search?q=condoleezza+rice+and+professor+at+Stanford&amp;form=msnhal\">What is she doing now<\/a>? August 29, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/search?q=hurricane%20katrina&amp;mkt=en-us&amp;FORM=msnhal\"><strong>Hurricane Katrina<\/strong><\/a> hits Louisiana and southern Mississippi, devastating New Orleans.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2008<\/strong> &#8212; November 4, United States Senator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/search?q=barack+obama&amp;form=msnhal\"><strong>Barack Hussein Obama<\/strong><\/a> becomes the 44th president of the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The First Decade of the 21st Century 2000 &#8212; July, Venus Williams becomes the first black woman to win the Women&#8217;s Singles title at Wimbledon since Althea Gibson in 1957 and 1958. 2002 &#8212; March 24, Halle Berry becomes the first African-American female to win Academy Award for Best Actress; Denzel Washington becomes the second [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":365,"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions\/365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}