{"id":706540,"date":"2010-04-01T08:38:14","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T12:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.utk.edu\/tntoday\/?p=19797"},"modified":"2010-04-01T08:38:14","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T12:38:14","slug":"ut%e2%80%99s-10th-annual-blackshear-scholarship-banquet-is-april-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/706540","title":{"rendered":"UT\u2019s 10th Annual Blackshear Scholarship Banquet is April 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KNOXVILLE &#8212; The 10th annual Julian Blackshear Jr. Scholarship Banquet, sponsored by the College of Law and the Black Law Students&#8217; Association at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, will be held on April 17.<\/p>\n<p>The event begins at 5:30 p.m. at UT Visitors Center, 2712 Neyland Drive.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are $30 and reservations are needed by April 11. To reserve a ticket, contact Alexis Bell at <a href=\"mailto:abell8@utk.edu\">abell8@utk.edu<\/a> or (865) 974-6691.<\/p>\n<p>Keynote speaker will be Peyton T. Hairston Jr., senior vice president of diversity and labor relations at Tennessee Valley Authority.<\/p>\n<p>Founded by Julian Blackshear Jr., one of the first African-American graduates from UT&#8217;s College of Law, this scholarship program has helped recruit and retain outstanding African-American students to the UT College of Law. All proceeds from ticket sales and money raised at the banquet directly support the Blackshear Scholarship, helping realize the University of Tennessee&#8217;s commitment to diversity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>C O N T A C T :<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Clarence \u201cBo\u201d Odom (865-603-9343, codom4@utk.edu)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KNOXVILLE &#8212; The 10th annual Julian Blackshear Jr. Scholarship Banquet, sponsored by the College of Law and the Black Law Students&#8217; Association at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, will be held on April 17. The event begins at 5:30 p.m. at UT Visitors Center, 2712 Neyland Drive. Tickets are $30 and reservations are needed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":441,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-706540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2XNO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/441"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}