{"id":15527,"date":"2014-02-24T02:44:04","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T10:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=15527"},"modified":"2014-02-24T02:44:04","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T10:44:04","slug":"african-american-festival-entertains-educates-at-aquarium-of-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/african-american-festival-entertains-educates-at-aquarium-of-pacific\/","title":{"rendered":"African-American Festival Entertains &#038; Educates at Aquarium of Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/lbqawrd.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Photos: Aquarium of the Pacific African-American Festival with 2014 Heritage Award recipient<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The aquarium is a very special place\u2026 It\u2019s 75% water and our blood is 70% water. We all have the same color blood. And I\u2019m proud to receive this honor from an organization which cares so much and is helping give everyone a much better understanding of our oceans\u2014what&#8217;s in them and what we can do to protect them.&#8221; &#8211; \u00a0Abdul-Salaam Muhammad<\/p>\n<p>LONG BEACH, CA&#8211; A well-known poet, mentor, volunteer, musician and museum curator, \u00a0Abdul-Salaam Muhammad, recently received the Heritage Award for his extraordinary work in the community during the Aquarium of the Pacific&#8217;s 12th Annual African-American Festival. \u00a0Since 1967, he has promoted multicultural events which improve race relations and understanding. The former swimming star and lifeguard, also works in gang prevention as a longtime volunteer, mentoring youth, helping them improve their skills and self-esteem and get jobs in sales and marketing. \u00a0In 2000, Muhammad began assisting legendary photographer Frank D. Godden&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/long-beach-african-american.html\">read more<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photos: Aquarium of the Pacific African-American Festival with 2014 Heritage Award recipient &#8220;The aquarium is a very special place\u2026 It\u2019s 75% water and our blood is 70% water. We all have the same color blood. And I\u2019m proud to receive this honor from an organization which cares so much and is helping give everyone a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15527"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}