{"id":2730,"date":"2012-08-17T15:13:46","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T19:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/?p=2730"},"modified":"2012-08-17T15:26:44","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T19:26:44","slug":"2730","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/2012\/08\/17\/2730\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Slave-Ancestry Report Misses Mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/afam\/files\/2012\/08\/Obama-Slave-Ancestry.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2731 aligncenter\" title=\"Obama Slave Ancestry\" src=\"\/afam\/files\/2012\/08\/Obama-Slave-Ancestry.jpg\" alt=\"Obama Slave Ancestry\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Two scholars dispute assertions that a 17th-century forebear was one of the first documented slaves.<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3>Faculty members at Boston University&#8217;s African American Studies Program, Linda Heywood, Ph.D., and John Thornton, Ph.D, discuss President Obama&#8217;s\u00a0ancestral roots in an article on The Root. <a title=\"Obama Ancestry\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theroot.com\/views\/account-obamas-slave-ancestry-misses-mark\">Click here<\/a> to read the entire article!<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two scholars dispute assertions that a 17th-century forebear was one of the first documented slaves. Faculty members at Boston University&#8217;s African American Studies Program, Linda Heywood, Ph.D., and John Thornton, Ph.D, discuss President Obama&#8217;s\u00a0ancestral roots in an article on The Root. Click here to read the entire article!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3592,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3592"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2730"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2743,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730\/revisions\/2743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}