{"id":1829,"date":"2015-10-08T18:11:26","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T18:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecafeprojects.com\/declarationproject\/?p=1829"},"modified":"2015-10-08T18:42:15","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T18:42:15","slug":"declaration-on-black-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/declarationproject.org\/?p=1829","title":{"rendered":"Declaration on Black Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I, Jawuan Wright, am committed to the declaration that black lives matter, and will fight to end the structural oppression that prevents so many from realizing their dreams. We cannot, and will not, stop until America recognizes the value of Black life.\u201d These two sentences conclude the first \u2018State of the Black Union\u2019, issued by the black lives matter movement in early 2015 after Barack Obama\u2019s sixth State of the Union address. Endorsed by over a dozen progressive organizations, the document declares 2015 \u201cthe year of resistance\u201d against this structural oppression, and presents a sweeping indictment of what it asserts is the systemic and institutionalized subjugation of, and violence towards, Black Americans.<br \/>\nSigned by:Jawuan Wright, from <a href=\"http:\/\/webgui.phila.k12.pa.us\/schools\/c\/constitution\">Constitution High School<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I, Jawuan Wright, am committed to the declaration that black lives matter, and will fight to end the structural oppression that prevents so many from realizing their dreams. We cannot, and will not, stop until America recognizes the value of Black life.\u201d These two sentences conclude the first \u2018State of the Black Union\u2019, issued by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-my-declaration-submissions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/declarationproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/declarationproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/declarationproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/declarationproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/declarationproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/declarationproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1847,"href":"https:\/\/declarationproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829\/revisions\/1847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/declarationproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/declarationproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/declarationproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/declarationproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}