{"id":187558,"date":"2017-03-14T11:03:31","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T15:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=187558"},"modified":"2019-07-18T22:54:13","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T02:54:13","slug":"us-embassy-nassau-black-history-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2017\/03\/us-embassy-nassau-black-history-month","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Embassy Nassau Celebrates Black History Month with Photo Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"

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To commemorate Black History Month in February, U.S. Embassy Nassau held its first nationwide digital photo contest, titled, \u201cThe Dream\u201d, which encouraged young people to reflection of the principles of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his influence on race relations worldwide.<\/p>\n

\"\"The contest\u2019s objective was to focus on Dr. Martin Luther King\u2019s principles and his role in advancing equality and human rights.\u00a0 Entrants submitted photos illustrating one of the basic principles put forward by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.<\/p>\n

The photos submitted reflect the his principles and how they manifest themselves here in The Bahamas.<\/p>\n

U.S. Embassy Nassau is pleased to announce this year\u2019s contest winners:<\/p>\n

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(Above) First Place: \u201cNonviolence Holds That Suffering Can Educate and Transform\u201d
\nSubmitted by Shanaye Smith (New Providence)<\/p>\n

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\"\"(Above) Second Place: \u201cTogether We Rise\u201d
\nSubmitted by Hadassah K.\u00a0McHardy (New Providence)<\/p>\n

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(Above) Third Place: \u201cOne People United in Love and Service\u201d
\nSubmitted by\u00a0Danyelle Sweeting (Grand Bahama)<\/p>\n

On March 9, the U.S. Embassy recognized the top winners during an awards presentation held at the American Corner, located in the Harry C. Moore Library and Information Center, University of The Bahamas.<\/p>\n

The winners each received Apple products including Apple iPad\u2019s and the iPod touch devices.\u00a0 Public Affairs Officer Penny Rechkemmer made the formal presentation to the top two winners Shanaye Smith and Hadassah McHardy.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Embassy wishes to thank all of this year\u2019s entrants for their submissions as well as the contest judges artist Antonius Roberts of Hillside House, Amanda Coulson, Director at the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas and Derek Smith, photographer at Bahamas Information Services for their participation and support.<\/p>\n

Captions:<\/p>\n

First place winner Shanaye Smith receives the top prize from Public Affairs Officer Penny Rechkemmer<\/p>\n

Second place winner Hadassah McHardy receives her prize from Public Affairs Officer Penny Rechkemmer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To commemorate Black History Month in February, U.S. Embassy Nassau held its first nationwide digital photo contest, titled, \u201cThe Dream\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":187559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}