{"id":15,"date":"2021-05-25T05:22:54","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T05:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/AuthorHouse\/823230\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2021-05-25T06:24:29","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T06:24:29","slug":"about-the-author","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/AuthorHouse\/823230\/about-the-author\/","title":{"rendered":"ABOUT THE AUTHOR"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><strong>ABOUT THE AUTHOR<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-92\" src=\"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/AuthorHouse\/823230\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/author-300x294.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/AuthorHouse\/823230\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/author-300x294.png 300w, https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/AuthorHouse\/823230\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/author-768x753.png 768w, https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/AuthorHouse\/823230\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/author-960x941.png 960w, https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/AuthorHouse\/823230\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/author.png 997w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Currently <strong>W. D. Palmer<\/strong> is the founder and director of the W. D. Palmer Foundation (est. 1955), a repository of information-gathering on racism in health, education, employment, housing, courts, prisons, higher education, military, government, politics, law, banking, insurance, etc. He is also the founder of the Black People\u2019s University of Philadelphia (1955) Freedom School, which was the grassroots organizing and training center for grassroots community and political leadership in Philadelphia and nationally. These organizations were run as nonprofit unincorporated associations from 1955 until 1980, when the Palmer Foundation received its 501(c)(3) federal tax exemption status. W. D. Palmer has also been a professor, teaching American Racism at the University of Pennsylvania since the 1960\u2019s and today he is a member of the Presidents Commission on 1619, the 400-year anniversary of African slavery in America.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABOUT THE AUTHOR Currently W. D. Palmer is the founder and director of the W. D. Palmer Foundation (est. 1955), a repository of information-gathering on racism in health, education, employment, housing, courts, prisons, higher education, military, government, politics, law, banking, insurance, etc. He is also the founder of the Black People\u2019s University of Philadelphia (1955) &hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/AuthorHouse\/823230\/about-the-author\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ABOUT THE AUTHOR&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-full.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/AuthorHouse\/823230\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/AuthorHouse\/823230\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/AuthorHouse\/823230\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/AuthorHouse\/823230\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/AuthorHouse\/823230\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/AuthorHouse\/823230\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/AuthorHouse\/823230\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions\/94"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/AuthorHouse\/823230\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/AuthorHouse\/823230\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}