{"id":822,"date":"2008-05-13T08:29:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T13:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=822"},"modified":"2008-05-13T08:29:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-13T13:29:00","slug":"meet-janus-adams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/05\/13\/meet-janus-adams\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Janus Adams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/SCmHYa-6n7I\/AAAAAAAABZo\/wEiRm1SBdd0\/s1600-h\/JAWelcome.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;float: left;cursor: pointer\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/SCmHYa-6n7I\/AAAAAAAABZo\/wEiRm1SBdd0\/s200\/JAWelcome.gif\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>The second class of PWV is well underway, and already I miss being a part.  So yesterday I sat in&#8211;ok, lurked&#8211;on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womensmediacenter.com\/progressive_womens_voices.html\">Progressive Women&#8217;s Voices<\/a> conference call with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janusadams.com\/\">Janus Adams<\/a>, the Emmy Award-winning author\/historian, publisher\/producer, creator of BackPax children\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s media.  Janus herself was one of four children selected to end de facto segregation in New York in the wake of Brown v. Board of Education.  These days, in addition to hosting a talk show, <span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:85%\"><\/span>she writes a weekly column, her latest one titled, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janusadams.com\/Features_ThisWeek.htm\">\u00e2\u20ac\u015325 Books that Changed African-America&#8211;Book #4.<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  In case you&#8217;re wondering, Book 4 is <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Freedom&#8217;s Journal<\/span>, a newspaper launched on March 16, 1827 by Samuel Cornish and John B. Russwurm.  These two launched not only a newspaper, but the history of African-American journalism as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second class of PWV is well underway, and already I miss being a part. So yesterday I sat in&#8211;ok, lurked&#8211;on a Progressive Women&#8217;s Voices conference call with Janus Adams, the Emmy Award-winning author\/historian, publisher\/producer, creator of BackPax children\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s media. Janus herself was one of four children selected to end de facto segregation in New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[129,21733],"class_list":["post-822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-media","tag-racial-equality"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}