{"id":78,"date":"2020-06-05T11:11:43","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T18:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cmmcknight\/?p=78"},"modified":"2020-06-05T11:11:43","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T18:11:43","slug":"sesame-street-town-hall-on-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cmmcknight\/2020\/06\/05\/sesame-street-town-hall-on-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"Sesame Street Town Hall on Racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-79\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cmmcknight\/files\/2020\/06\/200602112306-cnn-sesame-racism-town-hall-exlarge-169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cmmcknight\/files\/2020\/06\/200602112306-cnn-sesame-racism-town-hall-exlarge-169.jpg 780w, https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cmmcknight\/files\/2020\/06\/200602112306-cnn-sesame-racism-town-hall-exlarge-169-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cmmcknight\/files\/2020\/06\/200602112306-cnn-sesame-racism-town-hall-exlarge-169-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cmmcknight\/files\/2020\/06\/200602112306-cnn-sesame-racism-town-hall-exlarge-169-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This weekend, CNN and Sesame Street are hosting a discussion that will talk to kids about racism, the recent nationwide protests, embracing diversity and being more empathetic and understanding. More information about the event can be found\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/06\/02\/us\/cnn-sesame-street-standing-up-to-racism\/index.html\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It will air at 7am PST here in Vancouver, but will be available to watch afterwards online. There was another town hall discussion in April about the Covid 19 pandemic which can be watched\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/04\/25\/app-news-section\/cnn-sesame-street-coronavirus-town-hall-april-25-2020-app\/index.html\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-80\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cmmcknight\/files\/2020\/06\/Kidlitrallybanner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"398\" height=\"68\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cmmcknight\/files\/2020\/06\/Kidlitrallybanner.jpg 398w, https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cmmcknight\/files\/2020\/06\/Kidlitrallybanner-300x51.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 398px) 100vw, 398px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Brown Bookstore organized an online rally on Thursday evening. A video of the rally is available to view on facebook and information about the event can be found\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thebrownbookshelf.com\/2020\/06\/04\/kidlit-rally-4-black-lives-anti-racist-resources-for-children-families-and-educators\/\">here.<\/a> The post also has lots of links to resources and book lists to support conversations around diversity with children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, CNN and Sesame Street are hosting a discussion that will talk to kids about racism, the recent nationwide protests, embracing diversity and being more empathetic and understanding. More information about the event can be found\u00a0here. It will air &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cmmcknight\/2020\/06\/05\/sesame-street-town-hall-on-racism\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":389,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cmmcknight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cmmcknight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cmmcknight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cmmcknight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cmmcknight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cmmcknight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cmmcknight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/81"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cmmcknight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cmmcknight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cmmcknight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}