{"id":8444,"date":"2020-04-14T17:34:48","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T23:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rctc.edu\/echo\/?p=8444"},"modified":"2025-04-16T09:13:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T15:13:49","slug":"ebony-night-was-a-positive-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/ebony-night-was-a-positive-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebony night was a &#8216;positive experience&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8452\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8452\" class=\"wp-image-8452 size-medium\" src=\"\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_4395-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Woman in a fancy ethnic dress\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_4395-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_4395.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8452\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">RCTC celebrated Ebony Night on February 28. This annual event recognizes and honors those of African and African-American decent.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>By Samantha Olson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>RCTC celebrated Ebony Night on February 28. This annual event recognizes and honors those of African and African-American decent. The event also provides an opportunity to showcase the pride carried within the African\/African-American culture to the students, staff and faculty at RCTC.<\/p>\n<p>Event attendees got a chance to taste African cuisine, hear African music, listen to poetry, and view a variety of African dances.<\/p>\n<p>There was also a fashion show that displayed many styles of African dress.<br>\nAfter the event, guest Tony Macioce was asked his thoughts after attending RCTC Ebony night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was one of the best events I\u2019ve ever been to since moving from Duluth in 2018,\u201d Macioce said. \u201cI love being a part of a community where I can experience things I\u2019ve never seen or done.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEbony night left me with a much greater appreciation of unfamiliar cuisine, dance, fashion, and even poetry. It was a very positive experience for me personally, and from what I saw, for the rest of the participants and attendees as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI plan to go again next year. A big thanks to RCTC and all who made it possible!\u201d<br>\nEvent attendees agreed that this year\u2019s Ebony Night was a hit \u2014 one that will remain imprinted within the minds of many, and not just those who participated, but the audience as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samantha Olson RCTC celebrated Ebony Night on February 28. This annual event recognizes and honors those of African and African-American decent. The event also provides an opportunity to showcase the pride carried within the African\/African-American culture to the students, staff and faculty at RCTC. Event attendees got a chance to taste African cuisine, hear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1012,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[45,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-entertainment","category-campus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1012"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}