{"id":142225,"date":"2021-04-22T00:56:22","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T05:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=142225"},"modified":"2021-04-22T00:56:26","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T05:56:26","slug":"ywca-plans-stand-against-racism-event-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2021\/04\/22\/ywca-plans-stand-against-racism-event-2\/","title":{"rendered":"YWCA plans Stand Against Racism event"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Staff and submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The YWCA of Van Wert County invites community members to join it at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 28, at Wassenberg Art Park for its annual Stand Against Racism event. This free event is a chance to unite voices to educate, advocate, and promote racial justice.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/YWCA-new-logo-2-2018.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-98737\" width=\"287\" height=\"147\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Attendees will be given the opportunity to hear a keynote address by Van Wert Municipal Court Judge Jill. T. Worthington, as well as recite a &#8220;Stand Against Racism&#8221; pledge. In addition, special music will be performed by Kaitlyn &amp; Frank from\u00a0\u201cThe Move\u201d\u00a0and three local high school students will be reciting original poems.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe look forward to this event every year and are excited that we get to meet in person once again,\u201d said YWCA Director of Advocacy Kelly Houg. \u201cWe know that ending racism will take continued education, conversations, and action so it is our hope that the Van Wert community will come out on Wednesday to participate in what we feel will be a powerful evening.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The YWCA of Van Wert County&nbsp;is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all. The YWCA is partially funded by the Van Wert County Foundation and is a United Way agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff and submitted information The YWCA of Van Wert County invites community members to join it at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 28, at Wassenberg Art Park for its annual Stand Against Racism event. This free event is a chance to unite voices to educate, advocate, and promote racial justice.&nbsp; Attendees will be given the opportunity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 05:22:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}