{"270701":{"#nid":"270701","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Africa Atlanta to Build\/Mend Connections Through Yearlong Series of Events","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENearly 500 years since the first traders forced Africans into bondage, slavery\u2019s violent, disorienting consequences continue, not least in the tension between Africa and the West. What was once called \u201cthe white man\u2019s burden,\u201d an attempt to civilize backward people, is now considered imperialism, colonialism, racism and cultural misappropriation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA piece featured in \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.artsatl.com\/2014\/01\/africa-atlanta\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EArts Atlanta\u003C\/a\u003E details the aims of Africa Atlanta 2014, summed up by Jackeline Royster, dean of the \u003Cstrong\u003EIvan Allen College of Liberal Arts\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe goal is for Africa and for the West to stop looking at each other through unchanged eyes that still see the relationship as being marred by the transatlantic slave trade.\u201d \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27889","created_gmt":"2014-01-23 14:01:29","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:15:44","author":"Beth Godfrey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-01-23T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2014-01-23T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"246791":{"id":"246791","type":"image","title":"Africa Atlanta Logo","body":null,"created":"1449243758","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:42:38","changed":"1475894924","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:48:44","alt":"Africa Atlanta Logo","file":{"fid":"197947","name":"africaatlanta_logo.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/africaatlanta_logo_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/africaatlanta_logo_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":9489,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/africaatlanta_logo_0.png?itok=V71KdY5L"}}},"media_ids":["246791"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.artsatl.com\/2014\/01\/africa-atlanta\/","title":"Arts Atlanta article"}],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"60031","name":"Africa Atlanta 2014"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}